#there’s only one side: the resistance

[persephoneflouwers]

I was talking to someone recently and said that I would end a friendship or a relationship if I found out someone was a Zionist and thr person was like “well there are things to consider blah blah blah” and like…no. NO! I don’t need to consider anything more than you think the Palestinian genocide is justified somehow. That somehow an entire population deserves to be bombed and terrorized and occupied and stolen from for whatever fuck ass reason you’ve come up with. I do not and will never agree with that and I feel it so strongly that no matter how tough, that relationship would be over. Fuck Zionists and also fuck antisemites.

My judgment of people changes drastically when I learn their view on this.

This is not about opinions lol this is about the systematical apartheid and slaughtering, killing and abusing of Palestinians that has been going on for almost 80 (EIGHTY!!!) years.

No, i dont have shit to consider.

And I’m so vocal about this in real life too that people either thank me for being so honest or don’t mention the genocide to me because if we are not on the same page here I will erase their existence from my memory in like two seconds. It doesn’t matter how much I respect them or I am close to them.

Cause I don’t want anybody in my life who believes humanity is selective and war is justified.

[anghraine]

I know it's well-understood at this point that Kirk/Spock is much more of a nerd4nerd ship than a nerd/jock thing, but it's just been kind of percolating around my mind that both of them aren't just space nerds but space nerds who were personally bullied.

Like, 18-year-old Kirk was targeted by an older bully who combines "total asshole" with "the most grating man in existence":

MCCOY: Well, yeah, I'm beginning to feel a little bit picked-on, if that's what you mean. KIRK: I know the feeling very well. I had it at the Academy. An upperclassman there. One practical joke after another, and always on me. My own personal devil. A guy by the name of Finnegan. MCCOY: And you being the very serious young— KIRK: Serious? I'll make a confession, Bones. I was absolutely grim, which delighted Finnegan no end.

This was five years after Kirk survived a genocide, btw, and likely well before his stint as an Academy instructor known to be strict and demanding (which is the period the "stack of books with legs" description of him comes from). By the time he's 33, fifteen years after all this, it turns out one of his deepest fantasies is just beating the shit out of his bully, but only if he can do it According To The Rules (the replica of Finnegan sneers, "Always fight fair, don't you? True officer and gentleman, you").

Spock, meanwhile, is viciously targeted by his Vulcan peers for being biracial from at least age 5; he's described as being tormented by other boys by that age, and "at home nowhere except Starfleet." I think he'd have been 18 or 19 when he left for Starfleet and it's... the least bad of his options, but he seems to have spent his entire career among humans and being persistently subjected to raw racism and profound disrespect for his culture at every turn.

Like, their histories of being metaphorically shoved into lockers are not identical or anything, but I think it's interesting that they both have them.

[mishy-mashy]

THE CONTRAST OF THE ONLY TIMES WE EVER SEE BRUCE SMILING????

[cultivating-wildflowers]

somewhat ironic that the yarn minder has both matches and an old smoke detector in it

[the-binding-blade]

thinking about zxa again

[coffeebanana]

i love how optimistic i am when outlining long fics it's like "oh wow if i just plan this all out and then Follow. The. Plan!! it will totally be SO EASY. i mean i can have it all done so quickly!"

...ignoring the fact that this has never once happened 😂

[irhabiya]

"terrorism" and "terrorist" are dog shit terms btw

oh wow who would have thought colonized people are going to support anticolonial violent struggle

[enbyboiwonder]

I did not expect Mal transformed into a dancing girl to have white hair—or lily-white skin. Nessa and I both keep our hair and skin color, so why not him?

[gentlethorns]

you know what? i'm gonna say it. i miss being seventeen. not for the "glory days," bc they weren't, by a country mile lol. if i had glory days i'd say they were in 2020. but i miss the electricity, the constant undercurrent of euphoria and deep plunging black. i miss the fight i had. i was literally known for being scrappy. i was self-destructive and coping poorly, but goddamn if i didn't burn bright and long. it took me until my twenties to finally start to fizzle out. does the candle with its wax melted down to the base of its glass cage miss when the wick was lit?

[mwolf0epsilon]

Sponge's situation is incredibly complicated post-dark side fueled rampage.

They're locked up in the brig, even after the Resolute returns to Coruscant, and the Jedi have essentially put down some kind of lockdown procedure. All natborn staff is forbidden from boarding, and the only people allowed to keep tabs on the fallen medic are clones or the Jedi themselves (even then, Obi-wan has made it clear that both Anakin and Ahsoka are not to approach because Anakin is a little frazzled right now by the whole experience and Ahsoka is only a Padawan and he's worried for both of them).

It's not like Sponge has been resistant towards being taken in to face justice. They came quietly. The only trouble they gave anyone was when they'd first snapped, where they'd basically trapped the others in their own camp to keep them out of the way. And when the general and the captain tried to stop them they had (with as much restraint as they could manage at the time) Force thrown them at a wall to incapacitate them.

That had been the only instance of bodily harm they'd caused anyone of the 501st, and even then it was more of a show of "get in my way again and see what happens" deal. Even with how much they dislike their general and greatly disagree with Rex's undying loyalty towards the system and the Jedi, Sponge doesn't want to actually hurt or kill them.

The lockdown is more for peace of mind. And perhaps to protect the medic as well. The cuffs can only block out so much, dull the senses so much...

Coruscant never sleeps, and they know the assault of noise and sensations is going to be too much for someone who's only just had Force sensitivity awaken in them. And since Sponge had only recently come down from the adrenaline brought upon by their rampage, and is struggling with the after-effects of giving in to the dark so eagerly and recklessly, there's no doubt in anyone's mind that the extra stimuli might send them careening again.

They can't afford to have them freak out again and attack Coruscant's people. And it's not like Sponge can promise they won't do it... Not when they are stuck wanting more of what they'd had a taste of back in the battlefield. It'd be too easy to slip up and they understand that they are a bit of a ticking time bomb.

Best to just stay in the brig, curled up tight in a big warm blanket that won't protect them from the persistent cold seeping into their bones. The only thing they wish was different was Beautiful's absence. She'd chase the chill away and keep them calm if she were here.

But of course they know Beautiful would never cuddle up to a monster. They just hope the others are taking good care of their most precious companion. She must be so scared right now...

[swordmaid]

reconsidering wyllmance for yves because I like wyllach too much and I don’t want yves to interfere…!!! so I am thinking what romance would fit her…. and u know what does …. durgetash……

[aftonrobotiics]

everyone talks about candy cadet's stories but no one talks about how the story of the snake and the five kittens is about henry and william, and how the boy knew that the snake might kill them, but he just couldn't bring himself to get rid of the snake. HIS snake. his beloved pet. his closest friend. and by the time he had intervened, the damage had already been done. everyone talks about how the toy chica cutscenes in ucn are about william but no one talks about how the bear of vengeance cutscenes were about henry trying to confront william, only to be predicted and diverted at every turn, and yes william could've very easily killed him -- but at the end of the day he didn't want to, and he knew even if henry wouldn't stop trying, he would always fold and back off when pushed, if only for a little while. how henry hadn't been the one to drive william away, to kick him out of the company -- william had simply vanished one day.

[micwrs]

my indecisive ass is about to end up with two variations of kim within the shadyverse

[unprofessionaldoodler]

part 6 of the taffy series flavor: neapolitan

[seilon]

just wrote like three paragraphs ranting about my living situation and deleted it just know I am going insane and i hate it here and I need to live by my fucking self or I am going to absolutely fucking lose it

[blashdafish]

I cant sleep :[ too busy dysphoriaing and lacking anyone to talk to abt ittt falls over dead