#this is not new

[estrellami-1]

Is this something or nothing?

The rules of public travel are simple: do your best to stay in your own space, stay aware of your surroundings, and don’t stare at anyone.

Most people adopt the thousand-yard stare, simply staring through the floor or the window until their stop, where they pop up out of their seat (or straighten up, if holding onto a bar), make their way to the door, and wait to exit.

Steve knows the rules of public travel. He’s been bussed to and from Cincinnati too many times to count: the dubious perks of having rich parents who send you off for school.

He knows to stay in his own space. He knows to keep his eyes to himself.

But he hadn’t slept well the night before. He hadn’t slept well for the previous week, actually, and is going off of roughly twenty combined hours of sleep in the past six days.

None of which happened last night.

He hadn’t realized he was tired enough to fall asleep standing up. Hadn’t realized that was something people could actually do, until the bus was suddenly braking and he was flying through the air, no idea what was happening until he was caught like a goddamn maiden in a story, swooning on a random guy’s arm.

He blinks.

Random Guy blinks, then grins. “Well, hey, big boy,” he starts. “Looks like you just fell for me.”

Steve’s brain isn’t currently working, so all he gets out is a string of cut-off curses as he tries to get his feet under him. “Sorry,” he finally says, which feels really fucking inadequate.

Random Guy just shrugs and grins. “Accidents happen.” He looks up, pats Steve on the shoulder, and says, “Well, you’ve got great timing. This is my stop. See you ‘round, big boy!”

Big boy, Steve mouths as Random Guy turns around, feeling himself flush. Goddammit.

And it wouldn’t have been terrible if that was all he’d seen of Random Guy.

But now that he’s been made aware of his presence, Steve sees him everywhere.

Even worse? He sees Steve, and usually winks, which only serves to make Steve blush.

And even worse than that? Random Guy is hot.

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[aydracz]

I know I am late to the party, but I never knew this song was so Aziraphale and Crowley coded - and I almost choked on my tea when I randomly heard it today:

I've been loving you a long time

Down all the years, down all the days

And I've cried for all your troubles

Smiled at your funny little ways

We watched our friends grow up together

And we saw them as they fell

Some of them fell into Heaven

Some of them fell into Hell

Well, I took shelter from a shower

And I fell into your arms

On a rainy night in Soho

The wind was whistling all its charms

I sang you all my sorrows

You told me all your joys

Whatever happened to that old song

To all those little girls and boys

Those little girls and boys

Sometimes I wake up in the morning

The gingerlady by my bed

Covered in a cloak of silence

I hear you talking in my head

Well I'm not singing for the future

And I'm not dreaming of the past

I'm not talking of the fist time

I'll never dream about the last

Now the song is nearly over

We may never find out what it means

Still there's a light I hold before me

You're the measure of my dreams

You're the measure of my dreams

The measure of my dreams

The measure of my dreams

[cuckoo-on-a-string]

Look

So. I have nothing new to add to the discussion, but it's important, particularly for younger friends, to understand the explosion of violence in Israel and Palestine has been expected (and inevitable with current politics) for decades.

The gross human rights violations inflicted on Palestinians was well-documented and 'old news' when I was in college a DECADE AGO. There are many large scale examples, but I had the honor of talking to attempted peace keepers from the region who spent their days escorting school children so people from the colonist settlements wouldn't literally throw rocks at them as they passed the colonizers' 'property.' That stayed with me. Things have only gotten worse.

Because I know someone will go out of their way to be twat, this is not a defense of Hamas. It's also not a defense of a highly militarized ethno theistic state that has repeated refused to address ongoing harm (both active and passive) it inflicted on the native population.

The news frankly isn't doing a great job presenting the whole story, which is why I feel I need to put this out there.

If you want to see some the older evidence concerning what the people who eventually became Hamas were raised suffering, Amnesty International is a reliable, third party source that conducted extensive research and has attempted to do something. (Here's a link to a general piece about a specific campaign to get you started: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/)

The fact that western countries are being bullied out of sending humanitarian aid for the millions of Palestinians who are not Hamas/active combatants should tell you a hell of a lot.

Is the political, historical, and religious history of the region complicated? Absolutely. But I have to say as a white American who's had to come to grips with/own up to the legacy of colonization, dispossession, and genocide my ethnicity grants me (and the associated privileges), this whole story sounds damn familiar. Again, it isn't exactly the same, and the Jewish people as a whole have a long and storied history of just trying to survive in a world that is actively trying to annihilate them. But Israel does not represent all Jewish people. It is a political entity, and it should be held to account like any other.

There are paths towards peace, but they involve sweeping changes and concessions people in power find distasteful. That means Israeli citizens face determined violence from people who have nothing left to lose.

If you can fund relief efforts, do it. If you can bear to watch the news and hold the press, your politicians, and all the uncles who call the Palestinian people as a whole terrorists - DO IT.

[genocidalfetus]

Meh. I won't apologize for being friendly with certain folks. I also won't apologize for having my own thoughts on things and for taking a break from Night City. Also will not apologize for having my own boundaries. These are all normal human things.

You don't like it, don't let my hut door hit your arse on the way out.

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

the amount of conspiracy theories leftists on this webbed site believe is bleak and almost all of them are either explicit or implicitly anti-semitic in some way, shape or form and it's like yikes

put your critical thinking hat on for five (5) minutes, i beg of you

[eleventeenthealbum]

I'm smoking a joint now so bear with me but it seems like a lot of people want the "benefit" of the shock of kink/the psychosexual without any of the intellectual aspect the ascribe to them. Or for anyone else to lol

[chipthekeeper]

Like I know it’s just because more people watch the other shows than Andor but something really just bugs me and makes me sad about seeing people go so hard on Bo/Armorer and then Shin/Sabine while it seems like an actual canon wlw relationship was just a blip on the radar to the Star Wars fandom

And don’t get me wrong, those ships are fun and I love the joy they bring people and I admire the art and all that fun shit. It’s just that I’m sad Velcinta never got even a fraction of that level of energy dedicated to them

[thecatsaesthetics]

I love how Fire and Blood has both of these passages

Saying Aerea has a claim to the Iron Throne but not wanting to outright confirm it

Saying by “all the laws” Jaehaerys was the rightful heir and not King Aenys first born sons daughter.

The passing over of female right of inheritance is all over this book.

[dykes4timrand]

my spanish teacher just lectured me on how “i know you’re smart and you’re capable you just gotta get those executive function skills down” bc i have like 3 assignments missing like sir talk to any of my other teachers they’ll be amazed i only have 3 in your class i have like 6+ missing in math i promise im putting my full effort into your class 😭😭

[queen-mabs-revenge]

just tore my bedroom apart looking for a sundress bitch it was on a hanger under a button up shirt i looked at 84 times

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[ravenkings]

likes to charge, reblogs to cast

[casualfoxwitch]

since facebook nixed fact checking some really cool things are being shared and I am totally here for it

[glassymoonstone]

Hey guys remember the French Revolution

“people only *think* the economy is bad because of rising grocery costs!” okay but that’s called food insecurity, and I cannot overstate how big of a deal that is. food prices are, historically speaking, the number one thing that people have rioted about.

[werewolfmack]

A story to boost the morale of a broken country.