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Below the cut is a template email to send to Edinburgh Pride regarding sponsorship from Aegon, who have investments linked to the genocide in Palestine. Please feel free to use this text or edit it and make it your own and send it to contact@prideedinburgh.co.uk

Dear Edinburgh Pride,

As a queer person living in Edinburgh, I was deeply saddened to learn that the march partner for Edinburgh Pride 2024 is Aegon.

In December 2023 the ‘Don’t Buy Into Occupation Coalition’ published a report that showed Aegon have US$564million invested via shares and bonds in companies operating in illegal settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories. Source: https://dontbuyintooccupation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023_DBIO-III-Report_11-December-2023.pdf

We are watching a live-streamed genocide every day - over 36,000 people in Palestine have been murdered by Israeli forces, including at least 15,000 children. The brutality of these atrocities are unthinkable, with evidence of torture and targeting of hospitals, ambulances and refugee camps.

We all have a responsibility to do what we can to end this genocide. As queer people, we are part of a rich history of resisting oppression and dehumanisation - of both ourselves and those we stand in solidarity with. Pride started as a protest against homophobia, transphobia and police violence. It is an important moment to come together as a community to celebrate queer joy and resilience.

But how can we celebrate using profits stained with the blood of our siblings in Palestine?

Aegon has $564million invested in companies that have been listed by the UN as “raising human rights concerns” for their operations in illegal settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories, In 1948, 750,000 Palestinian people were displaced from their homes and lands and since then, Israeli settlements have been used to spread this process of colonisation.

In addition to this figure, Aegon also has major investments in Eaton Corp Plc., who supply parts for helicopters and fighter jets to the Israeli military and have recently been the target of major protests at their factory in Dorset. They also invest in Amazon, who support the Israeli military with surveillance technology used against Palestians.

Israel has long used ‘pinkwashing’ as a tactic to justify the brutal repression of Palestinians, using queer people to legitimise this horrific violence. We refuse to allow this to be done in our name.

The tide is turning on companies like Aegon that profit from investments in the companies complicit in genocide. Recently, both Hay and Edinburgh Book Festival have dropped Baillie Gifford as a sponsor after over 800 authors called on them to divest from companies involved in Israel and the fossil fuel industry.

I ask that Edinburgh Pride:

Calls on Aegon to commit to divest from companies involved in supplying technology to Israel and operating in illegal settlements.

Drop Aegon as a sponsor until they are able to show evidence of divestment.

Publicly call for a ceasefire and a free Palestine.

There is no pride in genocide.

I look forward to hearing your response.

XX

Sources:

Investments in companies operating in illegal settlements https://dontbuyintooccupation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023_DBIO-III-Report_11-December-2023.pdf

Investments in Eaton https://extranet.secure.aegon.co.uk/static/sxhub/pdf/client-pen-distribution.pdf

Investments in Amazon https://www.aegon.co.uk/content/dam/auk/assets/publication/fund-factsheet/standard_bkj9zs0.pdf

Israel’s pinkwashing: https://bdsmovement.net/pinkwashing

War on Gaza statistics: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker

Edinburgh book festival ends Baillie Gifford sponsorship: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm553zrr3e4o

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141 X M!Reader

Main members of 141 x American M!Reader.

NSFW; Suggestive Interactions between 141 and M!

Reader, nudity segments, male on male intercourse.

Goofy ass Gaz and Soap in this Imao - will also be ongoing, maybe.)

Y - You

SR/Gh - Simon Riley/Ghost.

JM/S - John MacTavish/Soap.

JP/Cpt. P - John Price/Captain Price.

KG/Ga - Kyle Garrick/Gaz

Gaz was laid there on top of you, both of you naked still as the effects of yesterday were starting to rub off of you once you awoke from your sleep. Your long enough hair was frazzled as you got up from the bed after maneuvering your way around Kyle Garrick’s naked body. Once you got your boxer briefs and pants on, you then covered up Gaz. You walked out of the room, smiling a little bit as you hear Ghost, Soap, and Price’s feet tapping on the ground, trying to sneak away like they hadn’t seen Gaz and you have some heavy intercourse.

You walked into the living room, sitting beside Soap who was in just a shirt and underwear, Price in a shirt and pants and same thing goes for ghost. You move rough housing with soap as a smile comes back on your face, your eyes then on both Ghost and Price.

“ Once I’m done with this one, you both are next. ” - Y

Ghost and Price have a blush on their face, but walk up to you and Soap, Price getting behind you and Ghost getting under Soap, you and Soap moan out as the two of you get humped by Price Ghost who take off their clothes, Price slowly pulls off your pants and boxer briefs before shoving himself into you while Ghost does the same to Soap but Ghost then takes Soap over to a counter, bending him over it and pulls himself out of Soap, fingering Soap harshly and repeatedly making Soap moan and crumble like putty in Ghost’s hands.

Price just slowly moves back and forth in you, wrapping an arm around your torso as he pulls most of himself save for the head of his penis out of your rectum before pushing it all in down to the base of his cock, or more simply, his crotch. His hairy body rubbing against your body before he turns you around, putting his lips against yours as he seems to cherish the moment, your unsure if he is or isn’t, but you definitely know by the moaning from Ghost and Soap that they are really going for the rough, high reward, type of sex.

You look up, seeing an upside down Ghost and Soap who are moving back to the couch, your cock now in Soap’s mouth with his in yours as this session turns into a foursome. Price and Ghost making out as they fuck you and Soap whose cocks are throbbing within each other’s throats, as the two of you give head to each other, you both also move your waists, fucking each other’s throats someway.

After quite a few hours, Price and Soap were the first ones to arrive at ejaculation, Soap’s semen rushing down your throat after he slams his groin into your face, his roughness during sex being evident. Price on the other hand, moves back and forth slowly within you as he climaxes, his crotch against your ass as his cock fills up all of your rectum, his penis throbbing in you as he releases his semen in your ass.

You and Soap switched places, him getting fucked by Price and you getting rammed by Ghost. You moan out as Ghost wraps an arm around your neck and begins slamming his cock in and out of you, his hairy crotch slapping against your ass cheeks as he kisses your neck and gently bites your ear on the left side of your face. His hand vigorously jacks you off, even to the point it hurts, but you don’t care that much since all you can think and feel is pleasure, rough pleasure as Ghost just dominates you in the intercourse between you and him.

You turn your head in Ghost’s grasp, your lips against his as he continues to roughly fuck you, it feeling close to what heaven would. You begin to shoot out lengthy lines of bodily fluid, a few landing on Soap’s back, a few on the couch and most of your bodily fluid being on Ghost’s hand, who continues to stroke your cock off making it even more painful while he rams hard into you.

After a little bit more of getting roughly fucked in your anus and having your cock painfully jacked off, Ghost slams hard into you one last time, his cock throbbing harshly in your rectum as he releases his climax into you, his semen filling up your anus with some of it spilling out, even more spilling out once he pulls his semen covered cock out of your ass. He moves, sitting his naked ass on the couch and pulling you into his embrace as Price and Soap cum for second time, just with each other this time, then cuddling up on the couch. You sigh, being absolutely exhausted from the pounding Ghost had given you.

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141 X M!Reader

Main members of 141 x American M!Reader.

NSFW; Suggestive Interactions between 141 and M!

Reader, nudity segments, male on male intercourse.

Goofy ass Gaz and Soap in this Imao - will also be ongoing, maybe.)

Y - You

SR/Gh - Simon Riley/Ghost.

JM/S - John MacTavish/Soap.

JP/Cpt. P - John Price/Captain Price.

KG/Ga - Kyle Garrick/Gaz

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It was around sunset the next day after the foursome between Price, Ghost, Soap, and you. You were in Ghost’s room, patting his back as he was processing what happened yesterday as he was slowly going from his persona Ghost to the actual being, Simon Riley. You were humming as he just repeatedly kept saying sorry to you as he kept processing the sex and trying to keep himself from either hyperventilating or spiraling into his own mind, you just kept humming along and rubbing his back, being a kind of anchor for him at the moment. You knew of “Simon Riley” through some of Ghost’s conversations when you just happened to be nearby in passing before now, but you didn’t exactly know “Simon Riley”, can’t put a face or main characteristics to such a being. You kept humming, helping the now “Simon Riley” as he was going through a, as you call it, smaller and smaller bubble. You never heard it called “Derealization”, so you call it the smaller and smaller bubble because that’s as close to what it would seem like in your eyes.

You kept rubbing Simon Riley’s back, cooing to him with sweet words and a melancholy smile, just helping him through his trauma processing. He turned his face towards you, you finally got to see him, the Simon Riley that Ghost would always talk about, the facial expression a soft grimace and frown with the scars softly relaxing instead of being taut and flexed like they usually are with Ghost. You looked into the man’s eyes, looking at that little spark of a life within them. That melancholic smile still on your face as you embrace the soft man, his arms gently wrapped around you as his face was lifted up to stare into yours. Your hands rest on his cheeks, you resting your forehead against his, showing that he can be comfortable and gentle with himself around you.

You watched as the spark of life left his eyes, that look of a cog in the machine filling his gaze. Ghost coming back with him rubbing your back this time, he then pressed your backside into the bed as he took over, that immorality that’s mixed with a ‘get the job done’ look clouding his eyes as he begins kissing your neck, slowly moving down until his kisses get to the top of your waist, his hands quickly working on your belt before he continued kissing a trail down your body, his mouth and hand soon on your erecting penis, him kissing it while he strokes it. His eyes staring into yours before he shoves himself fully down on your dick, his eyes still on your face, your eyes closed while your mouth is agape, moans escaping you like a whiny dog as he deep throats your penis. Your hands on the back of his head, your pinky fingers rubbing his ears because of how far you had spread your fingers so that Ghost can deep throat you faster.

Ghost’s callous and scarred hands rubs your body, mostly going up and down on your lower stomach, under your bellybutton before rubbing up and down following your hair trail that starts at the top of your pecs and ends in a large spread once it reaches your waistline, it being around the length of the top of where your crotch hair starts, which isn’t large of a space but still a lot compared to your nearly hairless body, you scored on the genetic lottery on being able to not have much hair but it does suck since you get so cold much faster without the usual thick gear of military equipment. You pull Ghost off your cock, pulling him up roughly with him putting his lips to yours as you adjust his cock, having him slam himself into you. You moaned out, with Ghost taking the moment by shoving his tongue into yours, making out with tongue as he fucks you. His hand vigorously fapping you off while his other hand grips your asscheek harshly, repeatedly slapping, squeezing, and rubbing your asscheek as he just rails your rectum with his girth-y inches of penis.

Your arms were wrapped around his neck and he held your legs as he got up and pressed you against a wall, fucking you harshly but also sexually fueled with how he slams into you but slowly and lustfully pulls most of himself out of you before he’s fully right back in you, balls deep inside your anus while he gently bites your bottom lip and continues to have his lips against yours, having a make out session as he just pounds into you. Once it had been a couple of hours of just lustful and harsh sex, your body convulsed as you let out moans while your sperm or cum shot out, coating Ghost’s pecs and abs with a little shooting far enough that it lands on his face. Your face went red as he licked your cum off his cheek and used his finger to get your sperm off his eye which he then sucked off his finger, him pulling you down by a grab to your neck, his lips going against yours as he makes out with you again before pulling the cover over you and him. Both of you still naked under the cover with his dick staying in you, and whenever you tried to grab your clothes, he’d smack your hand, whenever you’d try to pull his cock out, he’d push you back down on it with him pushing your face into his pecs, and whenever you try to get up in general, he’d just pull you back down and flip both of you around, with him then being on top and you on bottom to where you couldn’t escape the other naked man. His hips pressed hard up against yours as he now keeps you under him, both of you slowly going to sleep with him ever so often moving and with all that work up, as soon as you’re close enough to fading into sleep, you feel his sperm filling you up, your body shaking a little bit as he moves to respond to Ghost’s near sleep ejaculation. And eventually both of you are just a sleeping and snoring mess, mainly just you though since Ghost is a not so much sound maker in his sleep unlike you.

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