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Canadians: TIME-SENSITIVE CALL TO ACTION! 🛑 Monday, March 18 is CRITICAL. The is forcing a vote in Parliament on an immediate ceasefire, an arms embargo on Israel, full restoration of funding for UNRWA, imposing sanctions on genocidal Israeli officials and officially recognizing the State of Palestine. All NDP Members of Parliament will unanimously support the motion. It will be up to the and to pass it, since all Conservatives will no doubt vote against it. Call your MP asking them to support this motion.
Sample email: Hello, My name is ABC and I live in City, Province, and I’m calling/writing out of concern for what is happening in Gaza. On Monday March 18, do the right thing and support the NDP’s Opposition Day motion, which calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, an arms embargo, the full restoration of UNRWA funding and humanitarian aid, and more. We need you to use all levers you have to push for the only humanitarian solution that really matters: an end to the atrocities.
hey, so i saw on your old blog that you said you had copies of your old fics - i was curious if you did have links, or something of that nature for the starving artist verse bc i've been wanting to reread starving artists/weather for ducks and the oneshots and was curious if you had them - if not that's fine, but i do want to say when i was in high school you were one of my favorite authors and i think of those stories often, so thank you! 🩵
hey!! I tried to message you the link directly but tumblr was not happy about it, I guess sending unsolicited google drive links does look kinda suspicious. thank you so much for asking - it honestly makes my week whenever someone pops up and says they remember the silly stories I wrote nearly 15 (!!!) years ago even if the stories themselves make me cringe. everything is bundled into a chunky pdf and can be found here. hope you enjoy them! ❤️
Ariha, Palestine.
movies will be like "THIS is the most bullied outcast unpopular girl in school... the Thin White Heterosexual Brunette"
I NEED TO KILL MY SELFFFFF i’m fine im fine it is a beautiful day to be alive on this beautiful earth it’s fine I NEED TO KILL MY SELF I NEED TO KILL MY SELF I i’m so fine being alive is so lovely AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
my favorite part of the day is laying in my bed
heads up to americans: the federal government is suspending the free covid test program on Friday, March 8th, so if you haven’t already gotten two orders of 4 at-home tests, now’s the time to do it
The devil works hard but fanfiction authors working with absolutely garbage characterization work harder
I hate when an artist gets exposed for being a bad person and people start the narrative “why would you even want to listen to their shitty music” when are we going to be freed from the idea that only good people create good art and bad people create bad art. It just makes it harder for these types of people to be exposed because now you got people thinking “how is this possible, his music is so good!”
Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.
We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.
The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.
Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.
Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.
There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.
Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.
We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.
It didn’t just start on October 7.
You guys better never shut up about Palestine. Even when they are liberated, your mouth better not close. Thousands upon thousands have died, and your words will never equal their lives, even if you spoke of them for thousands of years. You owe it to their memory, and to the people who live on, to never shut up.
i actually dont give a shit if hamas did everything and worse that israel accuses them of it still doesn't justify killing 30000 random civilians
this blog stands with palestine and if you don’t you can get the fuck out. what israel is doing is genocide and i will not tolerate anyone who supports it.
actually i love being a grown adult because i can stay up till 1am with work in a few hours and like. who is going to stop me. Myself? i have to laugh
Today (Jan 28th) is the end of the global strike for palestine.
but our work is not over. this strike is not a fix-all, and we cannot stop here.
keep supporting, keep reblogging, boosting, all forms of Palestinian content. we cannot stop talking about those martyred.
every day real people with real lives and families are martryed by the hands of isreal.
do whatever you can to help, in any way you can. i understand many cannot donate.
do not stop talking about Palestine.
from the river to the sea, palestine will be free.
idgaf about career development im using the rest of my 20s to build my lore
If you noticed, in the last week or so, the daily reports of the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza would average ~120. And as grotesque as it sounds, I do feel like people for the most part have grown unaffected by the numbers. The reason I say this now comes from the fact that what was circulating the most in the past week was how all of Gaza is functioning on 6 ambulances or how all of 36 hospitals in Gaza are destroyed (which isn't entirely true). This honestly proves that while we need consistent advocacy, people do crave shock value even if misdirected unfortunately.
Not sure what the best way would be to tell all of you that every single Palestinian killed by Israel is one life too many and genocide does not have a specific threshold of number of people killed per day to qualify as such.
We need to be loud about Palestine and we need to be consistent. Make no mistake, this genocide might drag on for many reasons but at the end of the day, those who are facilitating it are counting on people losing momentum.
"I was named Aquamarine after a rare and precious gemstone, whereas… Cecilia translated means 'dim-sighted.' But your parents know you better than I do." AQUAMARINE (2006), dir. Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
No child should ever utter these words. Remember that this is not a unique case, every child in gaza has been affected by this genocide, mentally and physically, either by losing their loved ones, losing their limbs, or losing their lives.
Don't stop advocating and demanding a ceasefire no matter what. Speak up, keep up the pressure. They need us.
Children of Gaza.
As a Black South African, watching these horrific events unfold, I cannot but reflect on my country’s own violent past. I recall the relentless planning and violence that accompanied the last decades of white South Africa’s attempts to make apartheid work. I remember the fears that grew among white South Africans as they put their trust in a sophisticated military capability, a conscription army, a nuclear weapons capacity and steadfast friends in the West, particularly the United States, Britain and France. It was the height of the Cold War and South Africa claimed to be the only democracy in Southern Africa, protecting “civilisation” from the encroaching threats surrounding it. Its military might and expansive police force were accompanied by a series of policies designed to maintain white minority rule. Each attempt to impose new such policies failed in the face of mass resistance. The more they failed, the more brutal the violence meted out by the military and the police with the encouragement of white politicians and a terrified white electorate. The “terrorists”, as the national liberation movements were referred to, could not be crushed by the mightiest army in Southern Africa. By mid-1985 a significant section of the white electorate and some in the ruling party realised that the problem of Black resistance was not going to go away. Something more drastic was going to be required.
. . . continues at Al Jazeera (16 Nov 2023)
THE WORLD STANDS WITH PALESTINE 🇵🇸
A journalist stationed at a Gaza hospital who has been able to make a call via his Turkish sim:
"We’re in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. We have no idea what’s happening. There’s no connection, no Wi-Fi, no reporters. We’re cut off from everything.. People can’t call ambulances or civil defense. We are being bombed in an unprecedented manner. The sky around us just lights up [with explosions], and no one knows what’s going on. You can’t reach anyone, even if they’re only 500 meters away. Ambulances and medics are begging reporters to let them know which streets are getting bombarded to go rescue the victims but the reporters themselves don’t know where anything is happening [because of the connection loss]. We are trying to report the news but we have no idea what’s happening.”
Please please please I know we all love Friends and Chandler was our favourite character and Matthew always put a smile on our faces and that’s all amazing but can we please please please talk about this:
“I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I'm still working through it personally, but the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, 'Will you help me?' I will always say, 'Yes, I know how to do that. I will do that for you, even if I can't always do it for myself! So I do that, whenever I can. In groups, or one on one.
And I created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober-living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me, and to people who love people like me.
When I die, I know people will talk about Friends, Friends, Friends. And I'm glad of that, happy l've done some solid work as an actor, as well as given people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the world wide web...
but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people.
I know it won't happen, but it would be nice.”
- Matthew Langford Perry
(August 19, 1969 - October 28, 2023)
Via Palestine Red Crescent Society: Israel has demanded that the Al-Quds hospital be immediately evacuated because they plan to bomb it.
The hospital currently accomodates atleast 400 patients, the staff and at least 12000 displaced Palestinians who seek some safety.
THIS IS A WAR CRIME!
There needs to be an immediate ceasefire!
AMPLIFY THIS SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THE TRUTH BEFORE ISRAEL TRIES TO BLAME SOMEONE ELSE AND SHIFT THE FOCUS FROM THE MATTER AT HAND!
STOP THE GENOCIDE!
@pscentral event 19: music
literary and cultural references in the good witch by maisie peters
