[id: a quote from Les Misérables that reads: “Ecclesiastes says: ‘All is vanity.’ I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps” /end id]
if you have a boyfriend and you start liking another guy you dont actually have to break up. basically you can put the first boyfriend in the bathroom and close the door, and then bring the second guy into the house and let them get used to each other's smells through the door. if you supervise them for the first couple weeks, they should eventually get along or at least not kill each other while youre away.
There's something very bisexual about a USB c charger
we are running out of posts
16. can you drive?
no. i’m a conscientious objector.
19. imagine we’re at a sleepover, would you paint my nails?
yes i’d paint them cinderella dreams blue
21. something you’ve kept since childhood?
uh every single thing i own and also every emotion i have ever felt
42. an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site?
uh discord. also i play 1010! when i need smth to do with my hands. i don’t play to win, i just enjoy moving colors around
here’s weirder asks
- who is/are your comfort character(s)?
- lighter or matches?
- do you leave the window open at night?
- which cryptyd being do you believe in?
- what color are your eyes?
- why did you do that?
- hair-ties or scrunchies?
- how many water bottles are in your room right now?
- which do you prefer, hot coffee or cold coffee?
- would you slaughter the rich?
- favorite extracurricular activity?
- what kind of day is it?
- when was the last time you ate?
- do you love the smell of earth after it rains?
- are you a parent? (all answers qualify)
- can you drive?
- are you farsighted or nearsighted?
- what hair products do you use?
- imagine we’re at a sleepover, would you paint my nails?
- do you say soda or pop?
- something you’ve kept since childhood?
- what type of person are you?
- how do you feel about chilly weather?
- if we were together on a rooftop, what would we be doing?
- perfume/body spray or lotion?
- a scenario that you’ve replayed multiple times?
- about how many hours of sleep did you get?
- do you wear a mask?
- how do you like your shower water?
- is there dishes in your room?
- what type of music keeps you grounded?
- do you have a favorite towel?
- the last adventure you’ve been on?
- is there a song you know every word to by heart?
- what’s your timezone?
- how many times have you changed your url?
- someone in your life, other than a relative, you’ve known for 10+ years?
- a soap bar that smells good?
- do you use lip balm?
- did you have any snacks today?
- how do you take your coffee?
- an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site?
- what’s your take on spicy foods?
- you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it?
- can you remember what happened yesterday?
- favorite holiday film?
- what was the last message you sent?
- when did you first try an alcohol beverage?
- can you skip rocks?
- can i tag you in random stuff?
emily gwen is unfortunately homeless. if you've ever used the lesbian flag please consider donating to a comrade.
At least 100 Israelis have been arrested for social media posts supporting Palestinians in Gaza and 70 remain in detention, according to a legal advocacy group in the country. Adalah, which represents Arab Israelis in human rights cases, said the arrests are part of an unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression in Israel.
“We’re seeing things we didn’t see before,” Adi Mansour, an attorney in Adalah’s civil rights unit, said in an interview. “There’s a change in the perception of what is allowed and what is prevented.”
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Israel Police posted a video to its Arabic TikTok account Tuesday in which the police commissioner said that he would not allow demonstrations in support of Palestinians.
“Anyone who wishes to show solidarity and support Gaza is invited to board the buses heading there now,” Yaakov Shabtai, the commissioner, said, according to the video’s caption.
This is probably the most cruel question I could ask this fandom but
You can save them but you have to sacrifice one. Who do you pick?
Enjolras
Combeferre
Courfeyrac
Joly
Bossuet
Bahorel
Feuilly
Jehan
Grantaire
Eponine
Gavroche
** Marius is not in this one because he actually survives, y'know
*** I wanted to edit this to fix a typo but accidentally deleted it, so here I am posting it again. Do your worst.
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One time in college I told a guy "I am interested in sex" and he responded by recommending me some books on the sociology of sex
okay that’s funny
hey don’t cry, there are probably thousands of people reading smut at the same time as you, ok?
two things I keep seeing people be very wrong about very loudly
1. Israel is a heavily militarized society where there is a mandatory draft for many citizens, but not all, so for example religious women and haredi men are exempt (as well as some minority groups, like Palestinians within Israel). and people get out of serving in all kinds of ways ranging from faking mental illness to having actual mental illness to conscientious objectors to being exceptional at a certain art or sport.
we should absolutely be talking about how militarized Israeli society is, and there are incredible advocacy organizations like Mesarvot and Breaking the Silence that address that specifically within Israeli society.
but it’s not accurate (and it is incredibly callous) to conclude that rampaging Israeli towns isn’t really an attack on any civilians because there is no such thing as a civilian in Israel due to the draft and reserves.
2. Israel is not perfectly analogous to other settler-colonial regimes that were destroyed because all the settler society shares is a Jewish identity. this isn’t Algeria with France being a short boat trip away, with France being the place for settlers to return where they speak the language and generally belong to that nation.
there are Israelis that are 10th generation Yerushalmi (from Palestine) and there are Israelis whose grandparents came from four different places, some of which no longer have Jewish populations because they forced their Jews to leave. it’s not as simple as settlers “going back to where they came from,” especially when so many came as refugees or as people who were in search of a better life and were flat out lied to about Palestine being empty & simply waiting for them.
neither of these points change the necessity and urgency of Palestinian freedom and liberation.
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had a dream i posted "sometimes the gayest sex is the gay sex you never had" which is a great sentence because it means absolutely nothing so everybody could just project their own meaning onto it
me muttering to myself in public after a failed social interaction: tch… these people don’t even know… i’m mutuals with some very powerful people.. verrry powerful…
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I'm asking this in good faith, but also in an admitted lack of full understanding. If you don't have the energy to engage with this topic anymore please disregard it.
Someone on your post noted the comparison of Israel-Palestine to that of the Native Americans, but the way I read it it seemed like they were putting Palestinians in the role of the native Americans and Israel as the colonizing force, but historically wouldn't it be the Jewish people who are the Native Americans in that comparison? I ask because from what I know it would be the Jewish people in what is now Israel at the same time in history as the Natives in the Americas. Am I misinformed about that?
I'm not trying to say Palestine would be the colonizing force in that comparison btw, just that if we're talking about natives to the land, it seems to me like it'd be the Jewish people.
tbh neither maps on exactly
the expulsion of jews from what is now israel/palestine started in 70 AD and then was a gradual process over the next few hundred years as people moved out due to oppression by various rulers, poverty, etc
palestinians, as far as i understand it, likely descend from a mix of some of the jews who were left behind and arabs who conquered the land. they’ve been there for hundreds of years, and some families have owned the same land for all of that time
the thing about indigeneity as it’s been explained to me is that it’s not about origin so much as relationship to colonization. and the founding of israel was colonization – herzl actually used that word himself in his writings.
you know the jnf? the original purpose was to exploit a feature of ottoman land law. if you planted a tree on someone’s land and they didn’t remove it for a certain number of years, you could claim ownership of that land. this and other methods were used to steal parcels of land from palestinians.
“your ethnicity stole the land from our ethnicity, to whom the land belongs” is a fucked up framework that seems really akin to blood and soil (as does “our ethnicity has rightful ownership of this land from ancient times, so your ethnicity needs to clear out”), but genuinely wresting ownership from individuals owners really can be said to be stealing land.
also, the nakba was a series of massacres and fighting that led to a huge influx of palestinian refugees from many areas in israel/palestine, and israel seized control of the land and homes they vacated to hand over to jews. israel used the jnf, again, to cover the ruins of many palestinian villages with trees to obscure the fact that they were ever there. in general israel built over many palestinian villages and the mindset in israel is not to know and not to think about it.
personally i think the indigeneity debate is not useful. it feels sometimes that jews think that if we can prove we lived in israel in ancient times (we did, a lot of people insist we didn’t because it is inconvenient), we can justify things like the above. my position is that it does not justify it, because it is not an excuse for causing human suffering.
however, many people use a framework that is not about human suffering, but about how invading foreign jews stole the land from the “rightful” ethnic group. i don’t agree with that either. especially when it becomes an excuse to support ethnic cleansing in the other direction. that is to say: they locate the crime not in the invasion but in the foreignness. such people are motivated to deny the historical fact of jewish origins in israel, because their argument is based on jewish foreignness.
but anyway, the comparison to indigenous peoples in the americas refers to the way that palestinians experienced the establishment of the state of israel – starting with small groups of settlers, involving violence early on and then massacres, and later ethnic cleansing and displacement. cities and towns destroyed. shoved into small areas with few resources. lack of power and autonomy.
in addition, the way the early zionist leaders conceptualized themselves as enlightened europeans colonizing land with disdain for the existing residents.
yes!! this!!
This is the precise reason mestizos (hate that word but it's useful here)/generationally mixed Latin American people, even though they are direct descendants of Indigenous American people are not generally considered indigenous. On the whole they still benefit from hispanisization, stealing of indigenous land, etc. and also enact all of these things. It's important for us to recognize our indigenous ancestry, but not in a way that steps on or talks over people with a more direct tie to indigeneity. The Palestinian situation is much less like Indigenous American people's interactions with white people and much more like Indigenous American people's interactions with the generationally mixed Latin Americans
i really appreciate this context/knowledge/framing!
while y’all are advocating for a ceasefire - and you should be - we need to keep centered that while a ceasefire is necessary to stop the current genocidal attacks and get the food, water and medical supplies that palestinians urgently need to them as soon as possible, we CANNOT stop there.
a ceasefire is an important step that MUST happen but we cannot let it be the end. the world cannot turn away. because as soon as we do, israel will restart their genocidal campaign. a ceasefire is step one, but we MUST end the occupation. palestine MUST be free. there is no other option.
so please do continue to advocate for ceasefire, to protest and call your representatives demanding that they support it, but if it happens, do not become complacent. we cannot stop until the occupation ends and palestine is free.