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thatdiabolicalfeminist · 1 year ago
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just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they're just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.
war crimes aren't considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.
Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren't suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don't hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.
The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we're expected to celebrate both.
not bc they're Jewish. this isn't a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it's not evidence that antisemitism doesn't exist.
it's just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)
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fuckyeahchinesefashion · 2 months ago
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breaking news: love and deepsapce just released its PV for new card on Sep 23 with all four dressed in chinese fashion in tang dynasty style
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badgopher · 5 days ago
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I get that standard time is probably the correct option, but this blogger is a slut for daylight saving time and is already sad about 4-something PM sunsets.
Trying to decide which lamp in my apartment might accidentally break so I can replace it with this dinosaur one from Target.
Wait, is it raining???? It's raining??!?!!
I look at my shoes after 8 weeks and I'm like, eh, they're fine but I go ahead and order a new pair per the recurring calendar event that past James set up after figuring out why his feet were full of angry bees, and then I put the new pair on and every time I'm like oh, yeah.
The seasonal candle I like was on the shelf at Target this afternoon so I grabbed one, and when I got home I popped the lid off to smell it as I was putting it away and... nothing. So I stuck my nose in the candle I have out and nothing. So that's a fun thing.
Maisie Peters is opening for Kelsea Ballerini and they're coming to San Diego in March and I got a ticket and that made me happy.
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river-gale · 1 month ago
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2, 5 12, 27 with (of course) River Gale?
2. Favorite canon thing about this character?
i think it has to be that scene where they talk about register in english and how all our most formal syntax is latin and greek in origin and our least formal is usually germanic. just, the fact that they know that and are willing to randomly spend several minutes explaining it. i fell instantly in love
5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?
someone put 'Simulation Swarm' by Big Thief in a mars house playlist and i haven't stopped thinking about it since. river and aubrey....
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like wrong gender obviously but i think of them when i hear it. so.
12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?
i put this in a fic once already but i just feel in my heart that they know fortran. the programming language from 1957 bizarrely still in use among engineers. like, if you asked them to solve any problem in fortran, they could do it, and the solution would be bizarre, totally unreadable to anyone else, and LIGHTNING fast. i have programming style headcanons for every pulley character but this one is my fave
27. FREEBIE QUESTION!!
CARTE BLANCHE TO TALK ABOUT RIVER GALE!? LET'S GOOOO
i'm putting this under a readmore because i can't stop yapping.
i have so much to say. i could write individual essays about their politics, their gender, and their relationship to their sibling, but i want to talk about the argument they have with january sort of mid-book
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i love this argument because they both have a point! january has a point bc gale's policies suck and because gale is obviously super privileged in their education. when i first read it, i thought gale was being kind of obtuse for not acknowledging that, but...
on like my third reread i realized i've been in this argument on gale's side lmao. i'd like to think i'd respond more maturely now that i've been there a couple times, but in the moment, "i can't argue with you about this because you're too smart for me" is really deeply unpleasant to hear! it doesn't feel like the other person is pointing out privilege, it feels like they're saying "i can't connect or engage with you on this because i (a) don't trust you enough to believe you'll listen to me or pay enough attention to see my argument when i don't express it perfectly, in fact i think you don't care at all about what i have to say, and (b) you are different from me in a way that is inherent and immutable, so much so that i can't even discuss things with you." and it's easy to see why that hurts!
and gale probably feels that last one way more because their halo reading means their brain is actually, physically different from everyone else's! january is 100% valid for feeling overwhelmed in this moment and for these reasons, but to gale, who connects with people by debating them bc they care about other people's opinions, it probably feels like a moderately insulting rejection.
i also think gale is the sort of person who views a debate or an argument as an opportunity for synthesis—disagreeing with someone and pointing out the counterarguments isn't to tear their argument down, it's to make it stronger by giving it an opportunity to address its flaws!! it's to arrive at the truth together!! it's a way to grow closer to people by learning how they think!! but we can see here that january views it as a violent takedown, which is completely valid of him given what gale and their pr team did to him at the beginning of the book!! that WAS a violent takedown, it lost him his job, and it was his first introduction to gale, so it's totally reasonable of him to assume that's how they work all the time, even though it's extremely not!!
i just love gale so much, because they obviously care so much about other people when the other people are right there in front of them. and they try really hard to tone the argumentative curiosity down, because they know it makes people uncomfortable, but it's their truest way of expressing that care. and it's so easy to misinterpret. and if you really think about it this conversation is kind of tragic for them, especially if you read them as having feelings for january at this point!
tl;dr: i think it's a fantastic character dynamic packed into the span of a short conversation! thank you for reading my impromptu river gale essay <3
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sunmoontruth-stiles · 7 months ago
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I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.
#we follow Derek from New York. Laura left for beacon hills. it’s been six years since he was back but he hasn’t heard from her#and hes going stir crazy waiting. he packs up and travels back. it’s almost too much immediately. he still can’t get a hold of Laura#he can’t resist going home. it’s like a natural pull that guides him back. all at once he’s 16 again. staring at the wreckage of his life#deputy stilinski is sherrif now. it’s reassuring in the slightest that the police force seems to have moved on from how corrupt it was#he catches her scent and it’s putrid. bile catches in his throat. he seeks it out. still in denial to what he knows it means.#when he finds Laura it’s like the world ends all over again. he can’t stand to see her like this. he gives her a proper burial.#the best he can do at least#he visits Peter. he’s not the man Derek remembers- so full of fire and cunning. their relationship may have been strained at times.#often Derek felt more like Eve being swayed by the snake than a normal friendship#but this isn’t the sharp tongued uncle who guided him. this is a broken shell. all that remained of his family. he was so lost.#22 but he barely knew how to function without his family- his pack paving the way#Laura handled everything. she got the apartment. she made sure they had food. Derek looks back and feels so useless#he was so lost in his grief. Laura must of felt the same way but she never let them drown in it#she made sure he got his GED. even got him to enroll in community college classes.#he took them online. he never was able to warm up to people the same way. he used to be so full of life. now he just wanted to be left alone#he studied English. never finished his degree. doesn’t look like he ever will now. he can’t go back to Laura and his shared home.#can’t bare to see another shell of a home#he vents to the vacant audience of Peter and his cold fixed eyes#Derek leaves. he wants to promise he’ll return soon#but promises feel costly these days#he decides to go back to the reserve. maybe he can find some clue as to what happened to Laura#someone lured her here. someone who knew them and their history here#his mind went to the worst. Kate. why would she go through the trouble six years later. why wait so long.#Derek couldn’t stomach the thought of facing her. he focused on the woods. the scents were all over the place.#clearly multiple people had been through here recently. two scents were much stronger. Derek follows them#but when he hears the crunch of leaves he realizes why the scents are so strong. they’re still here#he ducks behind some trees. listening in on their conversation. but an echo of their scent catches his attention#he spots an inhaler on the ground. he puts two and two together and swipes it from the leaves.#he comes out once they’re closer. tossing over the inhaler- he figures they’ll leave. dumb kids messing around in the woods#he reminds them this is private property. though that may not be true anymore. he recognizes the scent of a new beta. interesting.
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swan2swan · 3 months ago
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Reading the Darth Plagueis novel and I have multiple thoughts so far...
He just picked up Palpatine and took him on as his apprentice (without us seeing the part where he names him Darth Sidious??? What was the deal with that????????? How do we NOT see him bestow the Name of a Sith Lord upon Darth Sidious???), so I'm maybe two-fifths of the way through.
But thusfar...eh...he just doesn't feel that "Wise" to me. He's more like "Darth Plageuis the Cunning". It's probably just the old adage of "the characters are only as smart as the writer". There's a number of fine Star Wars RPG scenarios thrown in that Plagueis is navigating expertly, but it's not really screaming "Wisdom" so much as "Intelligence".
Hoping The Acolyte does a better job with him.
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bmpmp3 · 2 months ago
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dave :)
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notholaenas · 1 year ago
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comic reader folks! do they sell physical copies in your country and if they do, how much do they cost? 👀
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dragoncarrion · 4 days ago
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i love thinking back at the tfp budgeting problems. What were they doing
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tenebrius-excellium · 3 months ago
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I will be looking at some fishies tomorrow O_O
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rawliverandgoronspice · 18 days ago
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I don't know if I'll ever get there, but the more I think about one of the later episodes for thralls and the more interpersonal political-military stuff I want to establish in it, and, I don't know how I'm going to prevent it from becoming a feature film about people fomenting little schemes and explaining terrain and magic systems and history to each other x_x
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b4kuch1n · 11 months ago
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fucking hell man something mildly fucked just broke. I'll open for digital ink comm tomorrow
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stabbingandorbeingstabbed · 2 years ago
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girl i was out in my car having my little smoke break at work and my back windshield just straight up exploded for seemingly no reason with me in it when i tell u i nearly shitted myself ????
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incogneat-oh · 9 months ago
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Finally happened. After like 8 years, Amazon finally worked out I am not in the US and booted me off the cheaper, more extensive Kindle store 🪦
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iftitah · 2 months ago
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heybabybird · 1 month ago
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I'm adding more characters to my next shaker release; is there anyone specific you guys would be interested in seeing?🥺
i have Cash, Steph Duke and Alfred for my next DC shaker and Sam, Tucker and human Danny for the DP one(portal/speeder), but I'm wondering if you guys will be interested in other characters from either franchise?👁️
Can reply here or drop me an ask!!
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