#zoe and joel

[world-of-pandora]

[too-funky]

Red Nose Day 2023

[gael-garcia]

Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Drawing together writers, editors, and other culture workers, WAWOG hopes to provide ongoing infrastructure for cultural organizing in response to the war. This project is modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, an organization founded in 1965.

Statement of Solidarity

October 26, 2023

Israel’s war against Gaza is an attempt to conduct genocide against the Palestinian people. This war did not begin on October 7th. However, in the last 19 days, the Israeli military has killed over 6,500 Palestinians, including more than 2,500 children, and wounded over 17,000. Gaza is the world’s largest open-air prison: its 2 million residents—a majority of whom are refugees, descendants of those whose land was stolen in 1948—have been deprived of basic human rights since the blockade in 2006. We share the assertions of human rights groups, scholars, and, above all, everyday Palestinians: Israel is an apartheid state, designed to privilege Jewish citizens at the expense of Palestinians, heedless of the many Jewish people, both in Israel and across the diaspora, who oppose their own conscription in an ethno-nationalist project. 

We come together as writers, journalists, academics, artists, and other culture workers to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom and for self-determination, and with their right to resist occupation. We stand firmly by Gaza’s people, victims of a genocidal war the United States government continues to fund and arm with military aid—a crisis compounded by the illegal settlement and dispossession of the West Bank and the subjugation of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

We stand in opposition to the silencing of dissent and to racist and revisionist media cycles, further perpetuated by Israel’s attempts to bar reporting in Gaza, where journalists have been both denied entry and targeted by Israeli forces. At least 24 journalists in Gaza have now been killed. Internationally, writers and cultural workers have faced severe harassment, workplace retribution, and job loss for expressing solidarity with Palestine, whether by stating facts about their continued occupation, or for amplifying the voices of others. These are instances that mark severe incursions against supposed speech protections. Specious charges of antisemitism are leveled against Zionism’s critics; political repression has been particularly aggressive against the free speech of Muslim, Arab, and Black people living in the US and across the globe. As was the case following the September 11th attacks, Islamophobic political fervor and the widespread circulation of unsubstantiated claims has galvanized a US-led coalition of military support for a brutal campaign of violence.

What can we do to intervene against Israel’s eliminationist assault on the Palestinian people? Words alone cannot stop the onslaught of devastation of Palestinian homes and lives, backed shamelessly and without hesitation by the entire axis of Western power. At the same time, we must reckon with the role words and images play in the war on Gaza and the ferocious support they have engendered: Israel’s defense minister announced the siege as a fight against “human animals”; even as we learned that Israel had rained bombs down on densely populated urban neighborhoods and deployed white phosphorus in Gaza City, the New York Times editorial board wrote that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life and the rule of law”; establishment media outlets continue to describe Hamas’s attack on Israel as “unprovoked.” Writers Against the War on Gaza rejects this perversion of meaning, wherein a nuclear state can declare itself a victim in perpetuity while openly enacting genocide. We condemn those in our industries who continue to enable apartheid and genocide. We cannot write a free Palestine into existence, buttogether we must do all we possibly can to reject narratives that soothe Western complicity in ethnic cleansing. 

We act alongside other writers, scholars, and artists who have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian cause, drawing inspiration from the Palestinian spirit of sumud, steadfastness, and resistance. Since 2004, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has advocated for organizations to join a boycott of institutions representing the Israeli state or cultural institutions complicit with its apartheid regime. We call on all our colleagues working in cultural institutions to endorse that boycott. And we invite writers, editors, journalists, scholars, artists, musicians, actors, and anyone in creative and academic work to sign this statement. Join us in building a new cultural front for a free Palestine.  

Signed,

WAWOG Interim Organizing Committee

Hannah Black

Ari Brostoff (Senior Editor, Jewish Currents)

Elena Comay del Junco

Kyle Dacuyan (Executive Director, Poetry Project)

Kay Gabriel (Editorial Director, Poetry Project)

Kaleem Hawa

E. Tammy Kim

Shiv Kotecha

Wendy Lotterman (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Muna Mire

Perwana Nazif

Brendan O'Connor

Alex Press (Staff Writer, Jacobin)

Sarah Nicole Prickett

Dylan Saba

Zoé Samudzi (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Jasmine Sanders

Claire Schwartz (Culture Editor, Jewish Currents)

Janique Vigier

Harron Walker

Chloe Watlington

Gabriel Winant (Department of History, University of Chicago)

Audrey Wollen

Hannah Zeavin (Founding Editor, Parapraxis)

Signed, In Solidarity

Fatimah Warner (Noname)

Saul Williams

Susan Sarandon

Janeane Garofalo

Gael García Bernal

Danez Smith

Ocean Vuong

Aria Aber

Saidiya Hartman

China Miéville

+ full list here

[filmap]

Blink Twice Zoë Kravitz. 2024

Villa Hacienda Temozón, Km 182 Carretera Merida-Uxmal, 97825 Temozón Sur, Yuc., Mexico See in map

See in imdb

[jacknives]

i've watched this an inhuman amount of times 😭😭 his goose honk laugh when she goes "do you want a handjob?" makes me cry

[brokehorrorfan]

Blink Twice will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 5 via MGM and Warner Bros. The 2024 psychological thriller is currently available on Digital.

Actress Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum. Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle MacLachlan, Geena Davis, and Alia Shawkat star.

No special features are included.

When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. It's paradise. Wild nights blend into sun soaked days and everyone's having a great time. No one wants this trip to end, but as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She'll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.

Pre-order Blink Twice.

[linilunilumi]

Colin Thewes heißt in einem Paralleluniversum Josh Zimmermann

~ "There's probably a parallel universe, where an Isak and an Even are laying exactly like this, except... the curtains are a different colour or something."

Der Golden Retriever, der Sunshine-Boy, der typische Nice-Guy mit dunklen Locken und viel zu großem Herzen.

"Manche Dinge sind gar nicht so kaputt, wie sie aussehen. Ich mach' mir immer selbst 'n Bild von Leuten."

Seine selbstbewusste sapphic beste Freundin. (Alle denken jedoch, dass sie ein Paar sind.)

"Sie ist nicht meine Freundin. Yara und ich kennen uns seit... Kindergarten."

Sein (zukünftiger) blonder Partner/Seine blonde Partnerin mit Familientrauma und künstlerischen Interessen.

"Ich weiß, dass es richtig scheiße ist von mir und... ich krieg's einfach grad nicht auf die Reihe. Ne und wirklich, ich weiß, dass ich andere Leute damit verletze. Ich weiß, dass das scheiße ist für dich und ich merk das auch wirklich, aber... ich krieg's einfach nicht gebacken."

Eine Freundin mit dem Namen Ava, ohne die die ganze Freundesgruppe oder die ganze Schule zusammenbrechen würde; die aber innerlich auch sehr verletzlich ist.

"Weißt du, ich glaub wir alle denken einfach, dass Ava richtig stark ist und alles ab kann. Aber sie ist halt auch nur 'n Mensch und... Wir müssen halt auch mal für sie da sein, weißt du?"

Und weil ich so viele Zitate gesammelt habe, mit denen ich diesen Post hier jetzt aber nicht sprengen möchte, gibt's gleich noch einen zweiten Teil: [Teil 2] [Teil 3] [Teil 4]

[scenesandscreens]

Blink Twice (2024)

Director - Zoë Kravitz, Cinematography - Adam Newport-Berra

"Something horrible is about to happen."

[mandoreviews]

📽️ Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

I love the first Avatar movie. I honestly don’t even know how many times I’ve seen it. So I was super excited for this one. I can’t say that it disappointed, but it was definitely different from what I was expecting. I can’t honestly say that I liked it better than the first one, although my sister did. I did enjoy the storyline, but I also felt it was a bit contrived with Quaritch pretty much coming back to life. I liked seeing Jake and Neytiri’s family, and I’m excited to see what happens with them in the next few movies. This movie was a good setup for those.

Sex/nudity: 1/10 (the Na’vi are semi-naked the whole time but they’re also aliens so idk)

Language: 5/10 (one f-word but quite a bit of other cursing)

Violence: 6/10 (a lot of battle scenes, some including deaths)

Overall rating: 8/10

P. S. I did watch this when it was in theaters; I’m just that behind in writing reviews 😬

[sanspants-radio-appreciation-hub]

[queenoftheimps]

Listen, dating app, I’m not saying a singles movie night is a bad idea, just..maybe…not…for this particular movie. 😬

[horrorcrypt12]

Now Watching:

Blink Twice (2024)

“When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality”

Stay Spooky!

[bizarre-hostile]

𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙺 𝙷𝙾𝚁𝚂𝙴𝚂 | RODEO ✮ COLCHESTER

You're taking hell and giving blood To all that want some. Could be a hard row to hoe. Where it ends we never know.

moodboard ; 🐎👢 inspiration ; pl des dark horses sur bottom of the river. AMBIANCE WESTERN CRÉPUSCULAIRE

n'hésitez surtout pas à aller faire un saut dans l'imaginaire de @undomesticaated et à succomber à son univers de folie, c'est la meilleure décision à prendre ♥

[zuzuonfire]

Reminder that this amazing, hilarious 15/10 Avatar Crew Film from the first movie exists. I literally bought equipment to upload it from the Blu-Ray. If you've seen clips of it floating around online it's from my YouTube upload ^_^

Happy to see people enjoying its awesomeness.

[feochay]

Sur le forum Crescent City nous avons une tradition annuelle : le Crescembre ! Une compétion sanguinaire en équipe où nous nous affrontons à base de défis journaliers ! L'un de ces défis : faire des avatars ! Je ne suis certe pas une spécialiste mais je les partage ici si cela peut intéressé certains !

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Blink Twice

Summary: Nail artist and cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her best friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) are whisked away to a private island owned by billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) for a holiday. Things quickly take a sinister turn.

Beautiful and unsubtle with refreshingly against-type Tatum. Trigger warning at start very much warranted.

Rating: 3.5/5

Photo credit: The Nerd Stash