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wasabijean · 10 months ago

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‼️ART FOR DONATIONS TO PALESTINIAN FUNDRAISERS‼️

Hello! A few days ago I began kickstarting my own personal Art for Palestine Campaign on Twitter, and I’m bringing it over to Tumblr as well! By donating to the fundraisers linked below, I will draw you something!

Details on how to help are here!!⬇️⬇️

First, send proof of donation to this google form (I require a screenshot of receipt with name, amount donated and who you donated to.)

After receiving your form, I will then DM you on Tumblr, to let you know your place in queue on trello, and the Estimated time of completion for your art! I will send WIPs if asked.

Here is what to expect based on how much you donate, example drawings are in the google form, or search #my-art tag on my blog.

$1 - traditional full page notebook sketches

$5 - digital messy sketch

$10 - digital clean sketch black & white/monocolor shading

$15 - digital clean sketch with color

$30 - (2 people) digital clean sketch and color

($40 - Three people)

($50 - Four people)

$60 - Clean Rendered Portrait (simple background, bust up)

$100 - Clean Rendered Full body, full background, full color

5. And here is the list of fundraisers participating, please donate to ALL of them, not just one!

Aya & Mohammed - Both torn by the occupation, them and their families are trying to evacuate Gaza. Mohammed is a survivor of IOF imprisonment for 20 days without outside contact.

Farah & her family - A 20-year-old english translator studying at Al Azhar University, Farah is young and has already gone through much. She and her family are trying to cross the border in Rafah.

Mahmoud Mush - A Palestinian graduate with dreams of establishing his Bakery, all his work undone by the bombings. He is determined to rebuild and pursue his dream no matter what.

Dounia Tanani & her family - A Palestinian mother who graduated as a translator and has been left homeless like many others. She and her family are trying to evacuate Gaza and begin a new life to raise her child.

Ahmed Almofty & his family - He is a recent graduate in Gaza with a promising future, and now he has no home or possessions. Ahmed's future relies on rebuilding his families lives.

Sondos Maher & her family - She is a 27 year old mother of three children who runs a family vlogging channel and now is trying to get them out of Gaza.

Nagham & her family - She is a third year medical student in Gaza who hopes to escape to Canada where her Gaza-born brother, Yasmeen, resides. To start her life anew for her and her family, they need to be evacuated!

Issa & family - They are apart of a family of 6, two of which are college students, while their youngest child is 12 years old. They are trying to evacuate and continue their children's education!

Hafez & his daughters - He is a father two young and bright girls, Malak, a 5-year-old with a love for school and his baby Habiba, born during the occupation. Please donate so they stay healthy!

Mostfa and his family – A young Palestinian body builder who has broke many records and set a precedent for his community, he and his family suffers from the occupation and sickness caused by it.

I will add more fundraisers for those who would like to participate, just tell me and I will add on to this via reblog. Palestine will be free, and it starts with helping the people who need freeing.

#fanart #my art #osmosis jones #palestine #artists for palestine #donation art #art commisions #free palestine #ozzy & drix

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oshecki-week · 5 months ago

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Oshecki Week is Coming!!

Oshecki Week is five days (September 24 - 28) celebrating the relationship between Osha Aniseya and Jecki Lon in Star Wars' the Acolyte. Each day will have a creative prompt submitted by the larger community to inspire participants to create fanworks focusing on Jecki and Osha.

The creative prompts will be determined by community submissions, which will then be organized / condensed into the five most popular prompts / themes. Prompt submission will be open July 17 - 24, with prompts announced July 27.

Moderating this event is @osha-and-jecki.

Find our about page here!

Find our rules page here!

Find our prompts here!

Find the ao3 collection here!

Timeline:

July 15: announcement!

July 17: prompt submission opens

July 24: prompt submission ends

July 27: prompts announced

Mid September: ao3 collection available

September 24: Oshecki week begins

September 28: Oshecki week ends

See you all then :) for light and life!

@swfandomevents @sapphicstarwars

#oshecki #jecki x osha #osha x jecki #osha aniseya #jecki lon #the acolyte #star wars #star wars wlw #osheckiweek #osheckiweek2024 #fandom events #lets fucking go!!!!

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thecoffeelorian · 14 hours ago

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Fandom Friday, 12/27: Fanfiction!

Hello again, everyone…and welcome to another installment of Fandom Friday, the two-post series where I go off to find new and interesting fanworks that might need a bit more visibility.

Before we begin, I have to admit something real quick: I almost forgot to make this list at all, because I was first working to get through retail hell at my job, followed by regaining all of my energy (and spoons) on Christmas Day.

However, since I think I managed to gather at least seven links for you all, even if it was at the last minute, I certainly hope that this is satisfactory at such short notice.

Anyways, before I get too distracted or lost...here, now, are my picks of the week.

THE PREQUELS

The Prequels Fanfiction--By @beauiestars:

THE CLONE WARS

The Clone Wars Fanfiction--By @testingforgravity:

The Clone Wars Fanfiction--By @justaparsec94:

THE BAD BATCH

The Bad Batch Fanfiction--By @star-farer:

The Bad Batch Fanfiction--By @indigofyrebird:

THE MANDALORIAN

The Mandalorian Fanfiction--By @dindjarindiaries:

The Mandalorian Fanfiction--By @annwrites24:

SKELETON CREW

Skeleton Crew Fanfiction--By @writing-girlie:

In conclusion, as part of my mission to poke around the Star Wars fandom and highlight those writers who might otherwise go unnoticed…I hope you will check out the links I have included for yourselves and like, comment on, and reblog them, as well as also giving the writers a few more followers to their Tumblr pages.

Please also like and reblog this latest installment so that these links can be spread around to as many other fans as possible, just in case not all of them can tune in at the same time.

An additional thank you goes to @djarrex for making the divider I used earlier in this post, but still want to give credit for.

And finally, so that I do not forget…thank you to my friends, thank you to this fandom, and above all else, please stay safe out there.

No Pressure Tags: @melymigo @algo-o-nada @the-osborn-way @everybirdfellsilent @skellymom

@leos-multifandom-corner @maggie-dylan @leenathegreengirl @gun-roswell @tazmbc1

@bluedeedeedoop @its-time-to-rise-above @tlmtwelve @snoowply @apocalyp-tech-a and anybody else who might be on the lookout for new SW fanfiction.

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sunclownsblog · 5 months ago

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Hello, I hope you are fine, I'm Islam from Palestine Gaza. Our house has destroyed a full destruction, we have been suffering from more than 9 months of war and condemns a lack of major life, drink and shelter, currently do not have a shelter and we have nothing. The loved ones and friends who were sold to me, I drive to me and my family to survive a weak campaign and donations are very weak and I can not collect what you need and I hope you please share this and return the publication and share my page To get the target as soon as you can support, thank you for all that please need to help this urgent help this link your campaign in and find through my personal page

https://gofund.me/574aa372

Islam's campaign was verified here by 90-ghost, and the updated link to donate is below!

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #important #donate

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ask-the-sagents · 10 months ago

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Ask the Agents Masterpost

This is gonna be the post for pretty much everything about the universe and the characters. It'll be updated on occasion and will remain pinned on my profile - more under the cut:

Edit: I've made a lot of changes so consider this an AU

Edit: (also check out the tags. Usually, I'll add in additional info (: )

Discord Server

Patreon (Early posts + Exclusive art!)

Most recent update on this post: 12/27/24

Character Pages

What is Sanitization?

Start Reading Here!

Askblog Stuff

The idols will be available for questions sometimes, but not all the time. I'll make a post and update the askbox with whoever is available for questions currently.

Magic Anons are allowed!

Posts will be posted as they are completed and will be a mix of answering questions and random comics!

If a main character (3,4,5,8)is unavailable, you can still ask them questions, but they won't answer it til after they get back

If a character is available but spotty, it just means they won't answer filler questions for the time being

World Info

The Idols:

Marie - Age: 30 - she/her - bisexual

Callie - Age: 30 - she/they - pansexual, trans

Acht - Age: 27 - they/them - lesbian, nonbinary

Pearl - Age: 27 - they/she - Lesbian, nonbinary

Marina - Age: 26 - she/her - lesbian

Deep Cut - Coming soon!

General World Info:

In the beginning, it takes place a few months after the events of Octo Expansion. Currently (as of 8/8/24) it has been a little less than a year

Spawn points don't exist outside of Turf Wars/Ranked battles, etc.

Octavio has been captured and currently resides in a high security prison. He is never getting out.

Octavio had used sanitization and hypnosis as a tool for control and punishment during his reign. He never had any intention on liberating his citizens.

There is only one hospital on the surface that handles Sanitization cases atm. This is due to it being rarely seen on the surface during octavios time, so not many people were researching it.

Squidjumping within city limits is illegal unless if it's an emergency

Instead of sewers, there are tunnels connecting the surface and the underground.

NSS:

Their current goal is to find out where all of the sanitization infections are coming from, helping to acclimate octolings to the surface, and helping to establish a working government/system to the citizens below the surface who are too afraid to leave (works alongside other agencies) Sometimes, they help around the community as well.

To their knowledge, there are no more hypnotized octolings.

Although small, NSS is a publicly known and important government organization

Captain Cuttlefish is deceased, NSS is run by Marie and Callie currently, although marie takes on a bigger chunk of the responsibilities.

There's a temporary housing area set up for octolings new to the surface not far from the clinic. They stay there until homes are found for them, which usually takes just a couple of weeks. They work with social services to help them beyond that as well.

Marina and Pearl are agents 6 and 7, however their role is much smaller and mainly help on the side of helping misplaced citizens find homes.

There is a single clinic near octo canyon as of this point that the NSS helped to establish with Inkopolis Memorial (due to a large chunk of sanitizations being found in that area) It's fairly small and typically only has one person working at a time, usually Agent 5 or another doctor from one of the local hospitals.

Inkling/Octoling Stuff:

They take more after the human side

They bleed actual blood instead of ink

They have claws that they can use for defense - ink will fill the tip of the claws.

Everybody has a limiter, which is a chip installed in their arm. Without this, they could use up too much ink when battling and possibly die due to their bodies not being able to keep up with production. When low on ink, their tentacles will become extremely dull and lose almost all color. They'll become extremely weak and lethargic until their hearts finally stop.

They have more flexible bones, but they can still break

They have 3 hearts

Inklings and Octolings gain their squid/octo form around puberty - they are in human form up until then.

Development of a person's squid/octo form can be stunted during puberty if they have health issues

They are able to swim in any water

It expends energy to change from an ink color that's not the natural one so typically they will dye their ink if they want it changed for longer

Ink burns are rare but can happen. It's caused by consistent exposure to enemy ink in a single area or an extremely strong shot. They can be painful, but they will heal and fade over time - they turn blue in color despite the color of the enemy ink.

When a cephalopod feels intense feelings of romantic love for another, their ink color will subconsciously change to match their partner's. They don't technically need to be together for this to happen.

They cannot fall asleep while in squid/octo form; if they do, they will change back automatically.

They have to use special shears to cut their tentacles or else it would be painful and cause possible damage.

Octolings only have some control over their tentacles, and usually, their tentacles can give hints to their mood. Typically, the older they get, the more control they have, but this isn't always the case. The amount of control changes depending on the person.

Inklings and octolings reach full maturity in their 20s-30s. This is where they develop a secondary color at the tip of their tentacles, and octolings will also have their fingers matching their ink color. Typically, octolings reach this earlier than inklings, but everyone is different.

They can get grey/white ink streaks due to age or extreme stress or anxiety

this will be updated as more information becomes available or as things change!

Updated hylian Font chart

Hylian Font chart (old, ignore this one!)

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open-hearth-rpg · 10 months ago

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Welcome to the Open Hearth Gaming video roundup!

These recorded sessions represent only a portion of the games we play every week, and anyone is welcome to join the fun! If you'd like to play in games like these, join our Playabl community and click on the "Calendar" tab to sign up for upcoming games. To browse our entire library of session videos, please visit our YouTube Playlists page.

Open Hearth Gaming Calendar

Monster of the Week: The Rockies (Session 6) Blake Ryan runs for David Montgomery, Dom, and Grey Cult comes calling

Trail of Cthulhu: Fearful Symmetries: Arc Two (Session 1) Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., Paul Rivers, Sherri, and Will H A year has passed and our investigators have dealt with the trauma and cost of dispatching the Dragon in different ways. But when an old debt is called in, Richard must re-assemble the group to look into the mysterious death of a member of the Rollright Coven.

Trail of Cthulhu: Fearful Symmetries: Arc Two (Session 2) Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., Paul Rivers, Sherri, and Will H The circle continues their investigation of the happenings at Convivial House. Talking to locals they begin to put together a picture of events happening in the two Quintons. Richard remains at the house overnight and has a vision of the hungry darkness lying to the north. Eventually they begin to piece together a picture of the sinister events surrounding Bradbury House and the grove which lies upon its grounds.

Tomorrow City (Session 1 of 2) Lowell Francis runs for Bryan, Cale P, Jo Lene, and Robyn Choi The first half of a two-part series of Tomorrow City, a new dieselpunk TTRPG from Osprey. We set up characters, jump into the action, and afterwards give the crew their new assignment.

Tomorrow City (Session 2 of 2) Lowell Francis runs for Bryan, Cale P, Jo Lene, and Robyn Choi The second half of a two-part series of Tomorrow City, a new dieselpunk TTRPG from Osprey. Our heroes develop, reject, and settle on what could loosely be called a plan. We spend some time with the characters before they execute their dangerous mission-- where nothing goes exactly as hoped.

Godbound: Sundered Cycles (Session 27) Lowell Francis runs for Dan Brown, Ethan Harvey, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Tyler Lominack In the aftermath of their defeat of the Angels, the pantheon considers what to do with Neeharik and the nation of Geznya as a whole. Ransom and Ivesro work to calm and organize the citizenry, and then look to the wild sorcery schools. Darius begins to find their place in all of this. Threadless constructs on several levels. Tasos tries to organize his found family and begins to extends the dreamscape.

Against the Monster Andrea Rick runs for Madelancholy, Robbie Boerth, and Sabine V. A story game about a monster hunt, the good of the monster, and the monstrosity of the hunters (currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter). We hunt a ghost in a desert and muse about loss, rage, and memory.

Godbound: Sundered Cycles (Session 28) Lowell Francis runs for Ethan Harvey, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Tyler Lominack The pantheon looks to decide on next steps, as we see each god interact with NPCs and more. Ransom meets with representatives of the allied pantheon and extends his dominion. Tasos speaks with a scholar of souls and anoints his feline followers. Darius decides to build a shrine and looks to get interns. Threadless decides to build a dragon, or an angel, or both.

Star Wars Saturday

Fellowship: A Fellowship in Rebellion Rich Rogers runs for Cody Eastlick, Greg G., Kae, Steven Watkins, and Tyler Lominack

Off-Calendar Highlights

Trophy Dark: The Forbidden Archives (Session 1 of 2) Madelancholy runs for David S., Gabriel Robinson, Robyn Choi, and Tentacle Duck (Sandra) Knowledge hunters seek to enter the lost Azure Archives, doing terrible things to find out where it is, and most likely delving deeper in their own darkness to capture the secrets within.

Trophy Dark: The Forbidden Archives (Session 2 of 2) Madelancholy runs for David S., Gabriel Robinson, Robyn Choi, and Tentacle Duck (Sandra) Interconnected, secrets revealed by the Azure Archives making more demands of the intruders than they can steal away. Who will survive but be forever changed, and who will be lost, never to leave the Archives?

#ttrpg #rpg #rpg actual play #rpg ap

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asandreolli · 21 days ago

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On Harold Klunder's Then And Now 21 November, 2024 – 11 January, 2025 Clint Roenisch Toronto

Around 2001, Harold Klunder had what turned out to be his last solo show at Sable-Castelli, the fabled underground lair of Jared Sable. His gallery had been one of the top spaces in Canada for decades but in his senior years a cloud of inertia seemed to have formed around Sable and many artists consequently left. He abruptly closed his gallery soon afterwards, turning off the lights on a long and storied run of post-war contemporary art dealing in Toronto. I was the curator of a regional Ontario museum at the time and I saw Harold's show on its closing Saturday. Most of the paintings had sold. But one that I liked hadn't and I asked Jared about buying it. I sheepishly said I would have to make payments. He looked at me like being poor was among the more distasteful things you could be in life, but finally agreed. I asked him when we could arrange delivery. It was almost 5pm. Jared said, just take it off the wall. I had never agreed to spend that much money on art before so I found his waving-away gesture a bit deflating. No congrats on your acquisition. No handshake. No wrapping, in fact. I walked through Yorkville with the painting under my arm and the next day sent Harold a note to tell him how pleased I was. He was flattered and very kind.

Having shown with Sable for 27 years, Harold wanted to take his time, out of respect, before showing again anywhere in Toronto. When I was about to launch CRG in 2003 I reached out to begin a conversation. Harold came by the gallery and I think part of him found the old wood floor, the big storefront window on Queen West with the sun streaming in, the high tin ceiling, all of it refreshing after Sable's polished, subterranean gallery. Harold had his first solo with me in 2004 and it went well, everything sold and we got a half-page in the Globe. I was so grateful for his trust because, really, he could have shown anywhere in Toronto. Olga's cavernous space would have been such a natural fit. But we worked well together and I enjoyed his calm, gentle company. Studio visits to Flesherton and Montreal were as immersive as his paintings were. Now twenty years have passed since that first show, Harold's paintings are in every Canadian museum, from the VAG to the National to the AGNS, and Harold, at 81, is still painting with the same compulsion as the gangly teenager he was in 1962 when he painted the earliest work in this new show, Then And Now. I am grateful that things have worked out that I can provide much more space now than I was able to then on Queen, but still it's not enough. The show is purposely overhung (something I've studiously avoided since the beginning…) but it is overhung out of reverence. Reverence for Harold's dedication, for the materiality of the paint, and for the many ways Harold puts it down. Gary Michael Dault wrote that Harold's paintings "beggar language," meaning they tend to hit the subconscious before anything verbal can be articulated. In that regard, although the vast majority of Harold's paintings are labelled Self-Portraits, they are not often meant as physical likeness, but rather as evocations of interior states of being, like CT scans of an artist's emotional life as its chapters unfold through thick and thin. The first big painting you encounter in the show is Sacred And Profane Love (Self-Portrait III) from 1985-1986. Shot through with gnarled, turbulent episodes of violent thick paint, there remains none of the sumptuous, organized calm of Titian's version from 1514. Instead comes the urgency that characterized much of CoBrA's work from 1950. With Dutch origins (like Klunder), the CoBrA group argued for "Creation before theory; that art must have roots; materialism which begins with the material; the mark as a sign of wellbeing, spontaneity, experimentation: it was the simultaneity of these elements which created CoBrA."

To the right of the love that is both sacred and profane is a large, new diptych, itself hung over top of the mural Harold painted on the wall for his 2018 show. The diptych is titled Nessun Dorma ("none shall sleep"), the famous aria from the final act of Puccini's opera Turandot. "Vanish, oh night! Set, you stars! At dawn I will win!". We can imagine the painter, up late working alone, parrying with the canvas, building up gestures on gestures, solving a riddle. This diptych with its earthy hieroglyphics, reminds me of Paul Klee. The white flashes suggest a constellation gleaming through an impenetrable night. Frank Auerbach, the British-German painter that Harold deeply admired who died November 11th, once said, It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

So it is with Klunder, painting comes first. To the left of None Shall Sleep is a strange, desert-like work, Little Egypt (The Quest For Certainty) from 1997 - 1998. An eye, appraising and alert, looks down on a cellular scene. A cartoon pyramid, painted like Guston might, looms on the horizon across from a pink portal. In between, a band of blue-purple, like the Red Sea, defines the middle. Harold has said that he makes paintings that he wants to look at, that he hasn't seen elsewhere. This eye conjures up a primordial being, perhaps the way a sea creature eyed up the beckoning shore 365 million years ago and envisioned a new life on land. Around the corner is the small 1962 abstraction painted when Harold was 19, halfway through his art education at Central Tech in Toronto. Borduas had died in Paris just two years prior and in 1962 a posthumous retrospective that originated at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts traveled to the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Toronto. What I mean is, the atmosphere of post-war abstraction was thick in the air for the young Klunder then and it follows that he would have been enthralled by the freedom of its possibilities. But the biomorphic, Arp-like, quasi-figurative vocabulary of forms that Harold eventually became very well known for did not truly begin to surface until the early 80s (the 70s mostly given over to exploring the rising prominence of fast-drying acrylic paint).

Then And Now is anchored in the main gallery by Harold's magisterial, eighteen-foot triptych from 1986-87, Future, Present, Past (self-portrait). A blazing, molten, writhing journey that seems half oil paint, half solar flare, each panel a tectonic plate slowly crushing into its other. The many passages of bravura paint-handling reveal no hesitation, an impastoed story of time unfolding in fluid, back and forth waves of dynamic energy. Over the many decades that Harold has been painting his work has gone in and out of fashion and yet he presses on, untroubled, moving through time, true to his singular vision. A personal vision that is nevertheless tethered to a deep understanding of art history generally and of other Dutch painters in particular (Rembrandt, de Kooning, Van Gogh, Vermeer…) but also painters as varied as Rogier van der Weyden, El Greco, Leon Kossoff, Munch and Ensor. To the left of Future, Present, Past we find a quite different work, a thinly painted seven foot square oil on linen, one of a suite of four called Language And Music. The title refers to Klunder's interest in brain activity when subjected to stimuli such as the human voice and the effect of music. Made with impressive restraint, here Klunder evokes a glitchy narrative between the central figure and the architecture of the background. The painting is hung adjacent to Future, Present, Past for the manner in which Klunder presents the central figure with two after-images trailing behind it, flashes of time's arrow. The architecture framing Klunder's figure recall the tubular cages that Francis Bacon used to such strong effect in his own portrayal of figures in ambiguous settings. To the left of this painting is a masterpiece, Sun And Moon, from the mid-90s, one of Harold's strongest periods. Here the paint coalesces around a thick, black, coagulating cellular structure in the middle, an event that seems about to divide and complexify, floating over a hastily painted, brushed-in background of ochres and rusty yellows. Arshile Gorky's landscapes from 1943 come to mind (the year Klunder was born, in Deventer, The Netherlands), as do the brown winter fields of the family farm in Holland, from which the Klunders left in 1952 to come to Canada, sailing to Halifax, taking the train to Montreal where they froze and didn't speak French, to eventually re-establishing themselves on an Ontario farm, one that Harold took pains not to have to return to after completing his studies in Toronto in 1964, when Yorkville was the beatnik opposite of the posh enclave it is now. Encrusted in paint the colour of dried mud, a portrait emerges at bottom left, born of the ground. Harold once said in an interview that "painting is like tilling the earth, listening to the rhythm of the seasons, the pulse of life itself." The farm, it seems, never leaves you. And it is true that throughout Klunder's painting practice his gestures seem to have geological, biological, chrysalis-like roots, of oozing shapes on shapes, each on their way to becoming something else as the viewer allows the painting to unfold. There is a durational aspect to Harold's work: invariably there are two dates on his paintings, no matter how small the work: the year he began and the year of its completion. Harold hopes for the same dedication in his viewers: completing the painting by letting it reveal itself episodically over time.

Now we arrive at Want And Destiny from 2007 - 2009. This is a fully resolved painting, an iconic Klunder, roiling with an energy that seems to coil around an almost planetary central axis, set amid a deep, murky ground. At top left the best egg yolk sun. The painting is also notable for its alluring passages of bright green, a relatively rare colour for Klunder to deploy. Then, of course, the faces and figures coyly announce themselves after the force of the all-over abstraction relents for a moment. A totemic figure flanks each side and a strong portrait holds the centre. When this painting was shown in the window at CRG on Queen the private dealer Chris Varley came and saw it. Then he called his clients and said, I am standing in front of a painting so good it will curl your toes. You must get it, or I will.

They did.

As we get to the east wall, a very small, potent oil on burlap painted in a Brooklyn studio Harold once kept. A head is enshrouded in the weave of the background while three orbs of colour glow forth. To its left comes the big Rooted In Earth (The Sound Of The Moth), a seven-foot slab of blue-black virtuosity, the interplay of forms and colours vibrating in harmonious dialogue. Harold has said, I have a preoccupation with, in a sense, seeing the painting as a mirror, and as I look at the painting it looks at me, and there's this sense of working with something that I can intimately understand, full of secrets that other people don't know, or it's a life that I can present because I know myself differently than anybody else would know me, so there's vulnerability that appeals to me…

Finally we come to the north wall, a dark wall of four works united in their chthonic force. Chthonic meaning 'in, under or beneath the earth.' Or perhaps they are figures born at twilight, crepuscular forms. Vespertine. That which flourishes in the evening. The bluest work, at far right, reads like a fever dream, of visitations by scarlet red figures. Beside it comes Skirts Of The Forest. Here, through black masses of trees, a pagan ceremony is underway? Something is afoot. Luminous shapes abound, shadowy events. To its left, a brooding triptych, a head rearing up in the centre of each. James Campbell, who has written well and often on Harold's work, wrote: 'Merleau-Ponty said, "The painter 'brings his body with him,' says Valery. Indeed we cannot imagine how a mind could paint." This is a truism particularly where Klunder's paintings are concerned, for they are, above all, bodied spaces, phenomenal fields, matrices of corporeal performances.'

Last there remains one small, dark diptych, tucked in the northwest corner, absorbing the radiant orange heat and light coming off the monumental 1987 triptych adjacent to it. That little diptych I leave for you to engage with. We can bring to painting as much as it brings to us, receptive to its mysterious language or not, perhaps depending on the day or one's mood. When I built the gallery on St Helen's I purposely inserted an angled wall in the front space as a kind of obstacle to the approach of the main gallery in the back. Much like the ramp at the National Gallery, the idea was to give pause, to create a breathing moment between life and art, to let whatever the day outside had thus far wrought upon you be now laid down and left there, if only for the duration of the viewing to come. Everyone carries their own bag of rocks. To engage with a painting is first to be present with it, to agree to give it our attention, that most coveted and fought over thing today - our attention - and if we can do that with a painting then the moment begins, becomes fuller, and then the reveries come next, mental digressions, recollections and connections sparked by the image before us, brought on by a painter mixing pigment and oil and laying it down on a scrap of burlap, coaxing forth realms.

Thank you for seeing this show, and thank you Harold Klunder for your work.

- CR

#Harold Klunder #Clint Roenisch #contemporary art #canadian contemporary art

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hetadoujinarchive · 2 years ago

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List of Dj’s on This Page

[Last updated mid June 2024]

[Currently organized in this order: GerIta, SuFin, RoChu, FrUK, Other Ships, Non Ship]

GerIta/Hretaly:

A Day On The Planet (85 pgs; dark)

Becoming Friends (17 pgs; dark, gun; nudity but nothing shown)

Beginning's Tone/Hajimari no Onshoku (27 pgs; dark)

BMMB Winter Comiket Issue (5 pgs; cute)

Canal Grande (14 pgs; somber; censored nsfw)

Catharsis When The Country Awakes (74 pgs; dark)

Cherry Boy Blues (21 pgs; dark)

Diamante (multi-ship; 59 pgs; only the gerita one is sad)

Dream Draws A Dream (33 pgs; light drama; censored nsfw)

Eternita (32 pgs; neutral-somber)

Gift (25 pgs; light drama; censored nsfw)

Goodbye My Little Girl (53 pgs; dark)

Hiraite Musunde Isshuukan/Red Shoelaces (28 pgs; light)

I-Logik (32 pgs; light)

I Won’t Let You Call Me Gattino (32 pgs; comedy)

La Sposa de Adria (51 pgs; somber)

Lei Chi Sono Dolce pt 1 (59 pgs; bit dark)

Lei Chi Sono Dolce pt 2 (49 pgs; dark)

Lettera D’Amore (37 pgs; cute)

Life Is So Beautiful (30 pgs; dark, tw)

Little Sheep/Counting Sheep (44 pgs; dark)

Marriage Press Conference (34 pgs; comedy)

Messenger Of Happiness (39 pgs; bit somber)

Night Watch (48 pgs; dark; censored nsfw)

Oggi Sposi (19 pgs; comedy)

Passato Ed Ora (32 pgs; dark)

Passwort Sirup (14 pgs; dark)

Playing House/Futari Gokko (120 pgs; dark, war)

Siamo Felici (24 pgs; comedy)

Sweet Home (30 pgs; dark)

The Defeat Of A Certain Man (60 pgs; drama; censored nsfw)

The Windowsill That Loved Him (30 pgs; sweet)

What If (12 pgs; dark)

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SuFin:

Ai Suru Hito (27; light)

Diamond, Diamond, Diamond (30; mostly light)

Good Night, Good Dreams (14; cute)

Happy School Days (14; cute)

Kemuri wa Doko e Iku no Kara/Where Does The Smoke Go (22; dark, smoking)

Oh Family (18; cute)

Pihatonttu (75; cute)

Second Stage (20; somber)

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RoChu:

Bloom Of Flower (18; dark)

Da Small Town (39; light drama)

Drowned Prince/Oboreta Ou (24; neutral)

Eternal Happiness (28; light drama; censored nsfw)

Guo Jie/Border (28; somber/neutral)

Little Song Maker (15; comedy)

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FrUK:

Deus Ex Machine (25; neutralish)

Diamante (multi-ship; 59; only the gerita part is sad)

Drive Me Crazy (58; light drama; censored)

Fairy In My Mind (43; light; censored)

My Dearest, The British Empire (19; light)

Shiki/Fuyu (45, dark)

Yoru no Mori, Anata to Futari (37, darkish?)

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Other Ships:

Fubin 2 (Gakuen PruHun; 20; light; censored)

Gap Moe (PruHun; 30; comedy)

Omoide Jenga (PruHun; 27; dark)

Always By Your Side (Giripan; 33; light drama)

Neko Netsu (Giripan; 22; dark, war)

Do You Remember Me? (RusPrus; 78; somber; censored)

My Name Is Your Night (RusPrus; 57; somber; censored)

Diamante (LietPol, RusAme, etc; 59; only the gerita part is sad)

Koi To Wa Donna Mono Kashira/What Is It Like To Be In Love? (AusHun; 18; light drama)

Million Lies (DenNor; 72; dark, violence)

The Nation And The Maiden (FraJoan; 33; dark)

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Non-Ship:

A Happy Friendship Day (Hungary & Poland; 14; light)

Cradle Voice/Yurikago no Koe (Italy & Austria; 14; light)

Dreaming (Child America &Canada; 17; light)

Fubin 1 (Gakuen England, Japan; 14; comedy; censored nsfw)

Heart Ni Hyoutai (Russia; hints of LietBel and RusLiet; 14; somber; censored)

Hide, Hide, Hide! (Child America & Canada; 29; cute)

I Am Here, It Is A Very Wonderful Day/Sayonara Sankaku, Matakite Shikaku (Belarus; hints of LietBel; 47; dark)

Moon For You/Anata e no Tsuki (censored v) (Japan & China; 28; war)

Moon For You/Anata e no Tsuki (uncensored v) (Japan & China; 28; dark, blood, war)

My Dearest, The British Empire (tech FrUK bnr; 19; light)

Nihonchi (axis vs ame & uk; tech gerita & itapan bnr; 25; comedy)

Passwort Sirup (hints of hretaly/gerita; 14; dark)

Summer Apparition/Natsu no Mamono (axis; 14; somber yet wholesome)

The Golden Age of Sea and Sky (Turkey & Greece; 25; neutral)

There Is No End (nordics; 27; dark)

The Sound Of A Heart Falling/Shinzou No Orihiru No (Belarus & Russia; 17; dark, tw)

Tomato! Tomato! Tomato! (tech spamano bnr; 20; cute)

World Wide Love (main cast, mcdonald, miku, shinatty; 21; comedy)

#numbers are for pages ofc #censored = censored by me #tech bnr = technically but not really #meaning it could be easily interpreted as non romantic #the other ship section looks a bit chaotic but I wanted to organize it by ship first then alphabetically #specific tws and cws are listed on the post #I'm not including any I've reblogged from another account but you can still find them through tags

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Hello, I am Rajab from Palestine, Gaza City. I am 27 years old, married with two children, Najwa and Ezz.

In Gaza, what we are facing a war that is unprecedented in the history of humanity. I left my home and was displaced more than 10 times, searching for a safe place for me and my family. We are facing a war of hunger, thirst, and high food prices. It is a very difficult because I lost everything I had built in my life. My friends and my neighborhood in which I grew up, and I lost the skate park where I and the youth and children from the Gaza Skate Team used to gather and skate. I have always been searching for ways to try to spread this sport to support my community.

But unfortunately every time I build something for my family's future and for my favorite sport, war comes and destroys everything I build.

Now I created this page to collect donations to repair my house, which was severely damaged as well as establishing a small skate park to continue supporting youth and children and bringing back activities for them.

Thank you to everyone who supports us to achieve our hopes and dreams.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year ago

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 27, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 28, 2023

Today Hamas released 11 more hostages into Israel; in exchange, Israel released 33 Palestinians from prison. Both sides have agreed to extend the truce for two days and to continue the exchanges. Hamas has committed to releasing an additional 20 women and children, and if the past pattern holds, Israeli releases will be three times that number.

The four-day pause in fighting has permitted aid to Gaza to increase. Since the 21st of October, when the first aid trucks began to cross into Gaza, more than 2,000 trucks of aid and assistance have gone in.

Once the deal was secure, President Joe Biden issued a statement: “I have remained deeply engaged over the last few days to ensure that this deal—brokered and sustained through extensive U.S. mediation and diplomacy—can continue to deliver results.” He noted that more than 50 hostages have been released and that the U.S. “has led the humanitarian response into Gaza—building on years of work as the largest funder of humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people.”

In his third trip to the region since the October 7 attack, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel and the West Bank later this week. He is currently in Brussels for a meeting of foreign ministers in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and will go to the Middle East from there. The State Department says that, among other things, Blinken will “discuss the principles he outlined in Tokyo on November 8, tangible steps to further the creation of a future Palestinian state, and the need to prevent the conflict from widening.”

In that November 8 address, Blinken outlined the U.S. administration’s policy for the future of Gaza. “[K]ey elements,” he said, are “no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza—not now, not after the war. No use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism or other violent attacks. No reoccupation of Gaza after the conflict ends. No attempt to blockade or besiege Gaza. No reduction in the territory of Gaza. We must also ensure no terrorist threats can emanate from the West Bank.”

Blinken said that “the Palestinian people’s voices and aspirations” must be “at the center of post-crisis governance in Gaza” and that “Palestinian-led governance and Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority” are U.S. requirements.

Gaza will need a “sustained mechanism for reconstruction,” Blinken said on November 8, “and a pathway to Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in states of their own, with equal measures of security, freedom, opportunity, and dignity.”

At home, the administration today announced nearly 30 new actions to strengthen the country’s supply chains, both because smoother supply chains should reduce consumer prices and because stronger supply chains should ensure that the U.S. doesn’t fall short of critical supplies, such as medicines.

On February 24, 2021, about a month after he took office, Biden established a task force across more than a dozen departments and agencies to figure out where supply chains were vulnerable. After research and analysis, as well as input from industry leaders, experts, and the public, the task force issued a 250-page report in June 2021.

Their recommendations, along with investments in key industries such as semiconductors and in infrastructure, helped to untangle the supply chains that remained snarled through 2021 (remember the 100 cargo ships waiting to dock in fall 2021? Now, two years later, there are fewer than 10). From October 2021 to October 2023, supply chain pressure, which is tracked by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, fell from near-record highs to a record low. That, in turn, has helped to lower inflation.

Now Biden has established a new White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience to make sure those supply chains stay strong. He will also use the Defense Production Act—a law from 1950 that requires companies to make a certain product deemed necessary to national defense in exchange for guarantees that the product will have a buyer—to make more essential medicines in the United States and to increase production of new clean energy technologies. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, one of the many government entities involved in supply chains, will invest $196 million to strengthen domestic food supply chains.

The country is also working with other countries on this issue: two weeks ago, Biden signed a supply chain agreement with 13 countries in the Indo-Pacific that he said will enable the countries to identify supply chain bottlenecks “before they become the kind of full-scale disruptions we saw during the pandemic.”

Clearly staking out positions for the upcoming election, Biden in his explanation of his new supply chain policy warned that MAGA Republicans want to cut the recent investments in roads, bridges, the Internet, and so on, that have created so many new jobs in infrastructure and manufacturing. (Those measures are popular: House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) joined members of the Florida congressional delegation today to view an expansion project at the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law although Johnson voted against it.)

“[T]hey want to go back to the ‘bad old days,’” Biden said, “when corporations looked around the world to find the cheapest labor they could find, to send the jobs overseas, and then import the products back to the United States. Now we’re building the products here and exporting products overseas.”

In contrast to the governance Democrats have been delivering, the Republicans appear to be doubling down on their grievances. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), who chairs the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, announced today the committee will hold another hearing on Thursday concerning “the federal government’s involvement in social media censorship, as well as the recent attacks on independent journalism and free expression.”

The idea that the federal government is silencing right-wing speech is an article of faith among MAGA Republicans, although their committee’s last hearing, eight months ago, turned up nothing. Thursday’s hearing will feature three witnesses, two of whom also testified in the last hearing.

MAGA Republicans might be keen to create distraction after Colorado District Judge Sarah B. Wallace found that Trump “engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021.” Wallace found that “Trump acted with the specific intent to incite political violence and direct it at the Capitol with the purpose of disrupting the electoral certification.” She did not disqualify him from the ballot, but the decision will continue to move up through the court system.

Meanwhile, former president Trump appears to be getting nervous that former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is gaining momentum. On Saturday he showed up at the University of South Carolina–Clemson football game, South Carolina’s main football rivalry. As Isaac Bailey of The State wrote, that Trump felt he had to try to upstage Haley suggests not strength, but weakness. Indeed, while there were cheers for him, there were also boos.

Yesterday, on Face the Nation, Representative Ken Buck (R-CO), who is not running for reelection, went after Trump. “Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America,” Buck said. “Everyone who makes the argument that January 6 was, you know, an unguided tour of the Capitol is lying to America. Everyone who says that the prisoners who are being prosecuted right now for their involvement in January 6, that they are somehow political prisoners or that they didn’t commit crimes, those folks are lying to America.”

As pressure on him increases, Trump is playing hard to his base, promising on Saturday, for example, that he was “seriously looking at alternatives” to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more popularly known as Obamacare. He suggested the law should be overturned.

Democratic National Committee chair Jamie Harrison noted on social media that more than 40 million Americans depend on the ACA for their health insurance and that the law also protects as many as 135 million Americans with preexisting conditions from losing their health insurance.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Biden Administration #accomplishments #supply chain #Israel-Hamas war #Letters from An American #Heather Cox Richardson

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(January 1, 2024 / JNS)

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Sunday called reports of a growing phenomenon of “settler violence” a “blood libel” and “a lie disconnected from reality.”

Cohen’s remarks came in reaction to a report that he was presented with on Dec. 27 compiled by the Samaria Regional Council, which documented what it described as an international media campaign against Israel alleging a “surge” in “settler violence.”

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It found that press reports relied primarily on numbers provided by the U.N. and, secondly, by other anti-Israel NGOs.

The study examined the U.N. numbers (compiled by OCHA, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) and found they were “not a credible source for ‘settler violence’ content.”

The report revealed that through verbal sleight of hand, OCHA shifted its terminology from “settler violence” to “settler-related incidents” in a graph documenting the alleged spike in violent acts.

More disturbingly, the OCHA page on settler violence defined those incidents as “involving violence, intimidation or trespass carried out by or against Israeli settlers and other Israeli civilians in the West Bank.”

“In other words, violence AGAINST settlers is also counted, by the U.N., as ‘settler-related violence,'” the report stated.

“I will demand answers from the United Nations and I will also instruct the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to forward the data of the report to our ambassadors around the world so that they can use it and disprove the blood libel,” Cohen said.

“The anti-Israeli campaign called ‘settler violence’ is a false campaign, disconnected from reality, and its entire purpose is to slander an entire population. The community that settles in Judea and Samaria is a law-abiding community that contributes to the state in many areas,” he said.

The report also noted that OCHA doesn’t look at whether Jewish residents acted in self-defense. “The fact that the agency feels no need to do so, is itself strong evidence of the agency’s real motivation: not to prevent violence, but to tarnish Israel’s image.”

Although the report notes that the term “settler violence” was coined in 2007, it says the goals of the worldwide media campaign for 2023 are among other things to “strike a specious balance” and create “a false moral equivalence” between the Hamas terrorists who perpetrated the Oct. 7 massacre and Jewish “settlers.”

Lending credence to this assertion was an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council called on Friday to discuss the Gaza war and “settler violence.”

The study cited a recent report, (which it said was ignored by international media), showing that violence against Arabs by Jews in Judea and Samaria had actually dropped.

According to Israel police statistics, from Oct. 7 to Nov. 7, there were 97 incidents of illegal activities attributed to Jews in Judea and Samaria, down from 184 offenses in the same period in 2022.

Concerns about “settler violence” have reached U.S. President Joe Biden, who asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Nov. 7 “to hold extremist settlers accountable for violent acts.”

On Sunday, 23 Knesset members wrote an open letter to Biden, requesting an explanation of his administration’s recent accusatory statements regarding Jewish violence.

“The data at our disposal indicates that the scope of these incidents is limited to a very small number of isolated events, which pales in contrast with the vastly larger scope of violent incidents perpetrated by Palestinian Arabs against the residents of these same Jewish communities,” the MKs wrote.

In the first six months of 2023, Rescuers Without Borders recorded 3,640 acts of Palestinian and Arab terrorism throughout Israel, including 2,118 cases of rock-throwing, 799 fire-bombings, 18 attempted stabbings and six vehicular assaults.

#israeli news #israeli statistics #israel under fire #israel under attack #antisemitism #pro israel

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On This Day in New York City History February 11, 1897: The White Rose Mission (also known as the White Rose Home for Colored Working Girls and the White Rose Industrial Association) was established in New York City on 97th Street in what is now the Upper East Side.

The New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts page describes it as follows:

"The White Rose Mission and Industrial Association was founded in 1897 in New York City by Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907), former slave, journalist, author, and social worker. The Mission was a Christian, non-sectarian social center for African-American women who had migrated to the North in search of employment."

Victoria Earle Matthews (May 27, 1861 - March 10, 1907) was the daughter of a slave and its believed her father was the master of the plantation. Her mother would escape to New York City and after the Civil War would return to Georgia to claim Victoria and her younger sister. Both girls would return to NYC with their mother.

Matthews would self educate herself and eventually became a journalist working on such NYC newspapers as the New York Times, New York Herald and the New York Sunday Mercury. She would also write for such African American newspapers as the Boston Advocate and the New York Globe.

Matthews would found such organizations as the Woman's Loyal Union (1892) and the National Federation of Afro-American Women (1895). The establishment of the White Rose Mission in 1897 sought to help black girls and young single women migrating from the south to learn skills that would help them find employment and to provide adfoddable shelter.

Matthews also wrote such novels as Aunt Lindy: A Story Founded on Real Life (1893) and helped to put together the address delivered at the first Congress of Colored Women of the United States, at Boston, Mass., July 30th, 1895 entitled The Value of Race Literature. It called for the collecting of writing both by and about African Americans. She also lectured on "The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman" and edited “Black Speeches, Addresses, and Talks of Booker T. Washington." Matthews would die of Tuberculosis on March 10, 1907.

The White Rose Mission would move to a larger location in 1897 at 217 East 86th Street and eventually moving to 262 West 136th Street in Harlem in 1918 until its closure in 1984.

#WhiteRoseMission #VictoriaEarleMatthews #BlackHistory #BlackStudies #BlackHistoryMatters #AfricanAmericanHistory #AfricanAmericanStudies #WomensHistory #WomensStudies #HERStory #SocialHistory #NYHistory #NYCHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

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part two: "genocide of the jewish people is cool, actually"

adding another poll with similarly cheerful data: the harvard-harris poll conducted on december 13-14, 2023 with a total pool of 2034 americans. here are the results in pdf form too. the youngest age group, aged 18-24, is the one i'll be focusing on.

more than half think that students should be free to call for genocide of jews - "if a student calls for the genocide of jews should that student be told that they are free to call for genocide or should such students face actions for violating university rules?" - 53% have answered with "told they are free to call for genocide", compared with 8%-37% in the other age groups. (page 51)

at the same time, 70% agree that such a call constitutes hate speech; it's still the lowest percent among all age groups - "does protesters on university campuses calling for the genocide of jews constitute hate speech or not?" - 70% have answered with a "yes", compared with 72%-92% in the other age groups. (page 51)

71% have also agreed that it would be harassments of jews; although it's, again, the lowest percent among all age groups - "do protesters on university campuses calling for the genocide of jews constitute harassment of jews or not?" - 71% have answered with a "yes", compared with 74%-92% in the other age groups (page 52).

a staggering majority, and the only majority among all age groups, think that jews as a whole are oppressors - "do you think that jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors or is that a false ideology?" 67% have answered with "yes", compared with 9%-44% in the other age groups. (page 56)

i am also including some of the data regarding hamas and the gaza war, because the questions asked about the organization were directly connected to violence against jews specifically (specifically when considering these answers as a whole - as is my intent when sharing this data - and not on a one-by-one case) - so the additional context matters imo. there is more data regarding opinions on the war that is more general so i won't be adding it here since it's generally much less relevant to antisemitism as a whole.

(consider together with the set of data brought in the next bulletin point) the younger half of the age groups in the poll's data have a larger percent of people thinking the events of 7/10 were not a terrorist attack, compared with the data set for the older age groups. "do you think the recent attack on israel was a terrorist attack or not?", 27% have answered with "no", compared to 4%-29% in other age groups (the results for the age groups of 25-34 and 35-44 were close, with 29% and 26% respectively). (page 45)

the majority of young people think the events of 7/10 were genocidal in nature, and at the same time they think it was justified - "do you think that the attacks on jews were genocidal in nature or not genocidal?" - 66% have answered with "genocidal"; at the same time, when asked "do you think the hamas killing of 1200 israeli civilians and the kidnapping of another 250 civilians can be justified by the grievances of palestinians or is it not justified", 60% have answered with "can be justified by the grievance of palestinians" - compared to 9%-44% in the other age groups. (page 46)

(consider together with the set of data brought in the next 3 bulletin points) 50% of people aged 18-24 support hamas (not the palestinians, hamas) in the conflict (compared with 4%-31% in the other age groups). (page 47)

"do you think that hamas would like to commit genocide against the jews in israel or is that not a goal of hamas?" - 58% have answered with "yes", and while that's still a majority, it's the lowest compared with the other age groups (63%-88%). (page 59)

76% of people age 18-24 think hamas can be negotiated with to create peace (compared with 13%-52% in the other age groups). (page 60).

51% have answered that the long term answer to the conflict is "for israel to be ended and given to hamas and the palestinians", compared with 4%-31% in the other age groups. this data is put here, again, directly to put in context with the questions about hamas' genocidal intents against jewish people. (page 69)

per results of the economist/yougov poll conducted on december 2 - 5, 2023, with 206 us citizens ages 18-29:

27% don't think jewish people face much discrimination in america today, and 12% don't think jewish people face any discrimination at all - 39% overall. (compared to 16%-37% in the other age groups.) [in october alone, there was a rise of nearly 400% in antisemitic incidents reported in the united states, compared to the same period in the previous year.]

17% think hate crimes in the united states against jewish people are only a minor problem, with 11% don't think they're a problem at all; 28% overall. (compared to 17%-33% in the other age groups.) 17% are not sure if they're a problem. (compared to 4%-12% in the other age groups.)

regarding the question, "do jews have too much power in america?" - 28% answered with a version of "agree". (compared to 6%-19% in the other age groups.)

regarding the question, "do american jews make a positive contribution to american society?" - only 52% answered with a version of "agree". (compared to 65%-81% in the other age groups.) 13% have answered with a version of "disagree" (compared to 5%-7% in the other age groups).

answering the question of whether it's antisemitic or not to deny that the holocaust happened, 17% think it's not antisemitic (compared to 3%-11% in the other age groups), and 37% are not sure (compared to 12%-28% in the other age groups).

answering the question of "do you agree the holocaust is a myth", 20% have answered with "agree" (compared to 0%-8% in the other age groups), 30% "neither agree not disagree" (compared to 2%-24% in the other age groups). only 51% disagree that the holocaust is a myth (compared to 68%-97% in the other age groups).

regarding the statement, "the holocaust has been exaggerated" - 23% agree (compared to 2%-9% in the other age groups). 26% "neither agree nor disagree" (compared to 6%-25% in the other age groups). only 52% disagree (compared to 66%-92% in the other age groups).

regarding the statement, "israel exploits holocaust victimhood for its own purposes" - 36% agree (compared to 13%-20% in the other age groups), 23% disagree (compared to 35%-60% in the other age groups), 41% are not sure (compared to 27%-45% in the other age groups).

link to the article version, with some infographics.

gen z is significantly more antisemitic than other gens. this antisemitism is still growing. if you ignore it, if you deny it, if you think only nazis/rightwing extremists do it, if you blame the jews for it, if you justify it in any other way - you're part of it.

happy hanukkah, y'all.

#i was sitting on this data for a couple of weeks but didn't really have the extra mental strength to put it all into writing until now #anyway - cue more replies from people who have got no idea how polling and statistics work

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2.29 Darkness on the Edge of Town by Adam Christopher

SPOILERS

Pages: 413

Time Read: 6 hours and 7 minutes

Overall Rating: 2.5★ Storyline: 2.5★ Dialogue: 3★ Characters: 2★

Genre: YA Thriller

TWs for the book: Death, gun violence, gang violence and culture, mental illness, PTSD, blood, kidnapping, murder, alcohol, serial killer, injury, war, government experimentation, drug use, car accident, ritualistic murder, mind control, fire, police brutality, NYPD glazing, classism, racism, cult, su*c*de/attempted su*c*de, psychosis, abandonment, smoking, sexism

POV: Third person

Time Period/Location: May 17, 1977-December 25, 1977 New York; December 26, 1984-December 27, 1984 Hawkins, Indiana; Set between Season 2 and 3 of Stranger Things.

First Line: Jim Hopper tried to kill the smile he felt spreading across his face as he stood by the sink, arms immersed in hot, soapy water, watching through the kitchen window as the snow fell outside in huge, fist-sized clumps.

Hopper and Eleven get snow in post-Christmas day 1984. With her friends not responding and the TV not working, Eleven goes snooping and finds a box with case files from Hopper's time as an NYPD homicide detective. She manages to get Hopper to agree to tell her the story, saying he knows about her life but she doesn't know a ton about his.

July 4, 1977, Hopper and his wife Diane have taken their daughter Sara to her friend's birthday party. The rich family hired a magician as entertainment for the parents, another parent named Lisa. She reads Diane's fortune and claims she sees darkness engulfing the city. Hopper is angry at her for trying to scare his wife but Diane says it's ok and they leave with Sara as the party ends. When they arrive home, Hopper's partner detective, Rosario Delgado, calls and says there's been another murder. Eleven makes Hopper go back to May 17, 1977 and explain how Delgado came to be his partner. He tells her about how Delgado was the first woman on the force, and that he had been promoted quickly, causing some of the other detectives to dislike him, so they made a good pair. Back on July 4, 1977, Hopper leaves his wife and daughter to go and view the newest crime scene. A man is found in a cluttered apartment, lying dead on the bed, with five stab wounds and carvings in his chest making a star. This is the third murder they've encountered like this, and realize they're dealing with a serial killer. Each time a victim is killed, they are found with a white card with a black symbol inked onto it. The first two were a cross and a circle, but the third is 3 wavy lines stacked on top of each other. The next day, Hopper and Delgado pour over the cards and pictures of the crime scene, but Hopper is interupted when Captain LaVorgna calls him into his office to tell them they're off the case. Hopper is angry, and even more so when a man in a suit, Special Agent Gallup from a mysterious government organization comes in to take the case from them and show paperwork proving that the latest victim, Jacob Hoeler, was an undercover special agent, giving them jurisdiction over the case. Hopper goes and meets with Delgado while the feds clear out their desks of all relevant casework. They make a plan for Hopper to cause a scene and Delgado to steal the paperwork that had Jacob Hoeler's addresses on them.

They meet again afterwards, and Hopper agrees to go to the second location, and Delgado goes to reinvestigate the scene of the crime. Hopper finds an empty apartment with nothing but a cot and a ton of classified file boxes. When he goes to look into them, he hears someone enter the apartment. He catches them by surprise, but it isn't an agent like he was expecting, and the intruder escapes even after Hopper chases them. By the time he returned to the apartment, the classified files are gone, and the only thing left for him to get clues from are an empty notebook with the indentations of the previous page pressed into the paper. Delgado has better luck at the crime scene, where she runs into the super of the building. He says how three boys in army jackets came knocking on Hoeler's door the week before the murder, and Delgado finds receipts and notes with addresses to community centers where AA meetings are held.

The next morning, before Hopper and Delgado get the chance to talk, Captain LaVorgna calls Hopper into his office and says he is needed downstairs to interview an informant wanting protection. Him and Delgado exchange information and then he goes downstairs to conduct the interview. The boy is barely an adult, and looks to be strung out on some sort of drug, barely cooperating to answer any questions. Hopper is about to leave when the boy, Leroy Washington, waves around a white card with black ink on it, another in the murder set. This time the symbol is a five pointed star like the ones carved on the victims. He begins talking about darkness enveloping the city and Satan coming to sit on his throne in New York, and that "the Saint" was going to make bad things happen. Hopper leaves him in a cell to sober up and goes back upstairs. Him and Delgado converse again, and she says she filled in Hoeler's notebook page with pencil, revealing that he had written the word "Vipers", and underneath it were the names of a bunch of gangs that no longer exist. They end up deducing that Jacob Hoeler and Special Agent Gallup are part of a gang busting task force, and that it ultimately was for the best that they took over the case so other peoples' covers weren't blown. They agree to tell LaVorgna tomorrow about what they found, Leroy Washington, and the new card, but Delgado tells Hopper to take the day since he looks exhausted.

Hopper takes Diane out to see Star Wars and they get egg cream afterwards. They joke and talk and Diane mentions that Hopper looks more relaxed, and he admits he's a little relieved that he feels like he can let go of the case now. When taking off his jacket, he drops the five pointed star card, and Diane says she recognizes it as a Zener card, something Lisa had in her magic act at the birthday party. When they get home, Diane calls Lisa and puts Hopper on the phone so he can ask his questions. Lisa was busy, but they agree to meet the next day. Hopper comes into work the next day and calls downstairs to see if Leroy has sobered up. They let him know that someone has released him on accident. Hopper is enraged, but Leroy calls him not long after, saying they need to meet up because he's in danger. Hopper leaves a note for Delgado to go meet with Lisa about the cards instead of him, and goes to get Leroy. When he arrives at the address, Leroy is no where to be found. Hopper waits, buying a new pack of cigarettes in the meantime. As he goes to poke around the phone booth, a mail truck comes up and five men hop out and kidnap him. He is knocked out, tied up, blindfolded, and dumped in a mailroom, and not long after, so is Leroy. Delgado goes to meet with Lisa, who is actually a decorated criminal psychologist. She explains her backstory, and her work at the Rookwood Institute where she attempted to rehabilitate prisoners for release into the real world. She left due to lack of funding and now works as a part time magician and does similar rehabilitation classes for people at community centers for a charity. She says that the Zener cards were made to try and test for telepathy and clairvoyance, and that there is one more symbol they haven't seen yet, which is the square. Delgado gives Lisa a ride to a community center, which was one on Jacob Hoeler's list of addresses. Special Agent Gallup reveals himself as Hopper and Leroy's kidnapper. He threatens them, saying that they must go undercover in the Saint's group, the Vipers, or he will have Hopper jailed and his family ruined. Hopper and Leroy agree. They plan for Hopper to be implicated in a double homicide that he will later be cleared of when the operation is done, and to then have Leroy take him into the Vipers as a disgraced cop looking for a place to belong. Before he disappears entirely, he goes home and naps, changes clothes, and then meets with Delgado to let her know that he did not commit the crime he's about to be accused of and that he has to go undercover. He also asks her to look out for Diane and Sara. Delgado, of course, agrees.

Leroy takes Hopper in a beat up old station wagon to the Bronx. On their way, they are stopped by three boys and a girl standing in the road. The girl, Martha, is Leroy's sister. They smoke weed in the car and Martha has them stop at a tech store that they plan to rob. Before they go in, Martha gives Hopper a pill that he spits out later, but not before some of it dissolved. They rob the store, and Hopper, high off the weed and the pill, attacks the store owner. They leave and head to a huge warehouse complex in the Bronx, and Hopper is introduced to the gang, and then after that, Saint John. Saint John believes that him and Hopper share a special connection due to them both having been in Vietnam, and welcomes him into the ranks, assigning him to Leroy and Lincoln's crew.

Delgado is in the office when the news about Hopper's supposed crime breaks. She goes to interview Diane, but when they interrupted by LaVorgna, Delgado slips her an address. LaVorgna then makes Delgado take a week of paid leave because she is too close to the situation. She takes this time to meet with Diane and tell her as much as she knows. After that, Delgado visits all of the community centers on Hoeler's list. She discovers that the first two victims were leaders of military support groups, and that Hoeler had been visiting them. She goes again to see Lisa at her support group meeting, but she didn't recognize the names of the first two victims, or the picture of Hoeler. Without knowing it, Delgado brushes by Saint John as he enters Lisa's meeting. She goes home and calls Special Agent Gallup to begin reporting her findings to him. At the end of her meeting, Saint John starts offering to help stack chairs, and Lisa agrees until she notices the Vipers jacket. She tells him to leave but he offers her a job, giving her the address of the warehouse in the Bronx if she is interested. Whenever she arrives home, she gets a call that she has been let go from the charity for financial reasons, and she impulsively decides to go the warehouse. She is surrounded by two men and a bunch of people on the roofs, but just when they're about to grab her, Saint John walks out and welcomes her to the Viper warehouse.

Saint John orders Hopper, Leroy, and Lincoln to go to a veteran's support group, and Hopper gets a lot off his chest. He does finally get agitated with Leroy though, and loses his cool, demanding more information. Lincoln begins to grow suspicious of Hopper, and they return to the warehouse. Hopper tries to open one of the crates they are moving, but Lincoln grabs Hopper's gun and aims it at him. Martha intervenes, telling Lincoln to go see Saint John, and squares up to Hopper with a crowbar. Saint John gives Lisa the tour of the warehouse, and, to demonstrate his abilities, orders a gang member to kill himself with a screwdriver. Lisa stops him, and wants to leave but continues to follow Saint John up to his office. She sits down at a table and finds herself unable to move, and Saint John reveals himself to be one of her former patients at Rookwood. Lincoln interrupts to tell him that Martha and Hopper are about to fight. He goes down and halts the impending fight, bringing Hopper back up to the office, but he is enraged to discover that Lisa has escaped. Hopper offers to search with Leroy and Lincoln's crews. He manages to find Lisa first, and she explains why she's there. He says he'll send Leroy to sneak her out, and that she has to go see Delgado. He sends Leroy, and then sneaks around Saint John's office, stealing plans, and finding the classified files that were in Hoeler's apartment. He then goes to the roof after hearing commotion up there. Gang members stand gathered around Saint John, all robed in white while he was robed in black. He does some prayers to Satan, and then Leroy drags Lisa forward. He uses his mind tricks on her, and she jumps off the roof of the building to her death. Hopper yells, and Martha grabs him and they both run, escaping the warehouse as the entire city is plunged into complete and total darkness from a blackout. They take Leroy's old station wagon and drive through the Bronx, where several buildings are on fire, some people are having a street party, and they have a few close encounters with a couple other gangs, causing them to eventually abandon the car and go on foot. They are hunted down eventually by seven Vipers, and they chase them through the park on motorbikes. Hopper manages to steal one from them, and him and Martha escape. They make it to where there are finally some police officers, but they are immediately arrested due to Hopper supposedly being a wanted criminal. The van they are loaded into, however, takes them straight to Special Agent Gallup in Times Square. Hopper hands over Martha and the paperwork he stole, and takes a motorcycle straight home to see his wife and kid. When he arrives, Delgado, who had been there guarding them, had left to go to the Rookwood Institute to find Hopper, since their neighbor Eric had seen the Vipers and all their guns marching on it. He contacts Special Agent Gallup over the radio, and tells him he is going to Rookwood to save Delgado and Leroy. He sneaks in, and finds Delgado unconscious on a pentagram, with Saint John standing over her with a knife. Leroy and another gang member, Rueben, restrain him, and he is drugged and knocked out. When he wakes, he is unable to move despite not being physically restrained, and Saint John explains that when he was a soldier in Vietnam, the CIA did experiments on him and he helped to do experiments on others to make them super soldiers. He believes wholeheartedly it was during this time that Satan was calling for him, and that call was reignited when he met Lisa. He tries to mind control Hopper into killing Delgado and then himself, but Hopper manages to break free and fight off Rueben, Leroy, and then Saint John, stabbing him in the shoulder. Leroy tries to fight off the drugs, but ends up shooting Hopper in the shoulder. Delgado is alright, and Saint John dies, and they wait for the cops to find them. Martha and Leroy reunite, and Hopper goes home to his family.

Delgado and Hopper are welcomed back to the precinct with open arms and cheers. In 1984, Eleven is satisfied with Hopper's story and it's conclusion. The last chapter describes Hopper's Christmas in 1977 with Diane and Sara.

Jim Hopper: Hopper was frustrating to read about at times with all of his blustering and the tough guy act he tries to pull with Special Agent Gallup. All of the scenes with him and Eleven felt dull and repetitive, especially with his repeated thoughts about "not wanting to talk about Vietnam cause he isn't ready" and worrying that Eleven is too young or not mature enough to keep hearing the story the entire book.

Rosario Delgado: Delgado comes across like a badass only to be used as the damsel in distress for Hopper to rescue and that was incredibly infuriating to me.

Lisa Saregeson: This entire character was incredibly frustrating as we are introduced to her officially with a lot of exposition of her backstory that was completely unprompted. She was essential to Saint John and his background and the story, and yet we never find out what he wanted from her, or what occurred while he was her patient, or what she knew about him. She felt like she just ended up being there to move the plot along and be a dramatic death in a climactic moment.

Storyline: At it's core, this book is just plot for the sake of plot. All of the characters felt hollow and like they were only there to move the plot forward. Information is glossed over for what feels like the sake of page numbers, and there are a lot of conversations and inner dialogue that feel repetitive and redundant. It also took me a bit to get into the story itself because I simply had a hard time caring, most likely because this was just a filler book for Stranger Things; I thought I would enjoy it but I didn't.

Representation: Rosario Delgado is Cuban American, and Martha and Leroy are black. Members of the Vipers are described as being of all races. I personally can't speak at all to how things like race or gang culture were handled in this book, but I feel like there were some things lacking. Also, Hopper and Saint John have PTSD from Vietnam, but the way it is shown that Hopper is strong and put together and got over it while Saint John became "delusional" also didn't feel like the best way to represent that as well.

Summary: While it kept me entertained enough to get through it, this book really wasn't for me. It was like reading fanfiction to be honest, and not good fanfiction either. I think the fact that I knew what happened with Hopper and his family was also unincentivizing. The murders that started the entire story ultimately fell by the wayside, and the exact source of Saint John's abilities were chalked up to an MKUltra experiment and some drugs, which not only did I see coming from a mile away, but was also never expanded upon. The entire dismissal of Lisa as a character was incredibly frustrating, and Delgado doing all that work just to end up being bait was also a let down.

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