there's a certain amount of privilege and naivety that comes with the people who truly believe in the phrase "you can't fight violence with violence".
What exactly are the oppressed supposed to do to protect themselves and their families and their land that's acceptable for you?
Are they supposed to sit down and write love letters?
Are they supposed to sit down and wait for the world to pressure Israel into no longer oppressing them? I mean it's been more than 70 years, how much longer should they wait for nonexistent International aid?
How many more years of western media acting as though "those Arab terrorists" and one of the most advanced militaries in the world protected behind an iron dome funded by western nations are on the same level and that it's an equal conflict, are we supposed to witness?
How many international war crimes do Israel have to commit without facing a hint of consequences before it becomes clear that the majority of western nations do support Israel and do not want Palestine to be freed because it would be inconvenient for them?
How did you think we were gonna fight for Palestine?
by trending hashtags? by simply preaching "decolonisation" without physically doing anything? By voting? (lmao) be serious.
This is a war that's been going on for decades. Not some playground shit. Palestinians have been oppressed for decades. Hundreds of innocent Palestinians are murdered every year in cold blood. Hundreds are displaced. The people of Gaza have been trapped in one of the biggest open air tightly controlled prisons for a very long time.
Realistically speaking, this horror and this war is not gonna end by Palestinians sitting down, twiddling their thumbs and hoping the state that's shown no mercy and stopped at nothing to try and erase them will show them kindness and mercy all of a sudden.
This is the same state full of civilians that go around chanting "death to Arabs" on their own holiday. The same state who's soldiers and civilians make it a tradition to attack people simply praying every ramadan.
You think those people will stop trying to gain more land and wipe out Palestinians with treaties, kind words and gifts?
When will it be acceptable for Palestinians to defend themselves and for those in Gaza to try and break free from their prison?
What exactly were you expecting?
the cutest pair
BREAKING MY HIATUS JUST TO SHOVE THIS IN YOUR FACES like they're so cute I don't think you understand !!
So the WH reddit discord server organized our own version of Inktober called Weak-tober! Everyday, there's a prompt to start off your writing or art piece. There's no word minimum and the goal is to have fun and create more WH content^^
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official english dub voice actors for matt (drew nelson) & mello (david r. moore) are back to fuck some shit up! audio drama, playing out the reunion scenes from chapter 4 & 5 of Crush. read along!
full episode: https://youtu.be/o0bjdE27_0U
sound mixing: @jeevasphere
So many critiques of She Who Became The Sun seem to boil down to either
1. Zhu isn’t a perfect feminist hero according to 21st century gender norms,
or
2. Ouyang wasn’t sufficiently ‘punished’ for his misogyny and by the end of the book he isn’t the image of a repentant former misogynist.
And I feel like these are both very cheap critiques.
Of course Zhu isn’t the ideal of a feminist icon. Yes, she has an interesting relationship with gender, but nowhere does the narrative frame her as perfect.
Of course Ouyang isn’t ‘punished’ for his sexism. That isn’t something that would have happened much at the time when the story is set, and anyway, Ouyang is very clearly only midway through his character development by the end of the book.
You lose so much of a story if you want every main character to be pure and perfect.
wylan yelling out “don‘t!” when jesper deals in his guns while gambling with smeet, almost blowing his cover as a waiter
after genya changes wylan’s face back: “Did you have her make you better-looking?” Wylan pinked. “Maybe you forgot how handsome I am.”
wylan worrying about jesper after they’re attacked on black veil: Would Jesper be waiting when they finally got wherever they were going? Or was he lying wounded and bleeding on the floor of the tomb with no one to come to his aid? Wylan refused to believe it. […] Jesper had to survive. (helpppp i’m crying)
jesper flirting no.1: “Things are always more interesting in the dark.”
Wylan’s first thought was that this boy had the most perfectly shaped lips he’d ever seen. (hello???)
colm’s instant approval of wylan: “That‘s why he likes you. I know, I know - it’s none of my business, and I have no idea if he’d be good for you. Probably bring you ten kinds of headache. But I think you’d be good for him.”
“Maybe I liked your stupid face.” (no need to elaborate on that one)
jesper flirting no.2: “It’s brilliant.” Jesper winked. “Just like you.”
this scene in the hotel: All Wylan wanted to do was stand as close as he possibly could to him and know that he was safe. (again, i’m crying)
jesper being the absolute best support for wylan while they are visiting his mother. “Wy, listen to me. You have to pull yourself together. Can you do this? We can leave. I can tell her you’re not up to it, or I can just go in myself. We can try to come back some-”
the fact that jesper was being super grumpy during their journey back from fjerda because wylan was “hiding out” when he literally was standing next to him the whole time
the whole first kiss scene. peak romance. and ending with:“Wylan,” Jesper said, looking into the wide blue sky of his eyes, “I really hope we don’t die.”
jesper being super angry when he finds out the reason why wylan’s father kicked him out (“He’s your son!”)
jesper flirting no.3: “Thought of me? Late at night? What was I wearing?”
wylan being the one to jump in and lie for jesper so colm doesn’t find out about his gambling problem: “It was my fault,” Wylan blurted.
”You were pretty amazing back there, by the way.” (awww <3)
weapon swap, idea from @itadorifushi thanks for the ask~~ [ids in alt]
Zhu: Oppenheimer
Ma: Watched Oppenheimer with Zhu, then went to watch Barbie on her own
Xu Da: Barbie
Yuchun: Barbie
Ouyang: Oppenheimer
Esen: Oppenheimer. Brushed hands with Ouyang by accident in the darkened theatre. Thought nothing of it. Ouyang thought about it for the rest of the movie.
Baoxiang: Gathered his entire household for a public viewing of Barbie, watched Oppenheimer alone in private, then gathered everyone to watch Barbie again just to really drive the point home.
General Zhang: Watched Oppenheimer and then Barbie with Madame Zhang.
Madame Zhang: Watched Oppenheimer and Barbie with General Zhang. Then felt insecure and watched Oppenheimer again, alone.
Rice Bucket Zhang: Oppenheimer
Chen Youliang: Oppenheimer
Lady Ki: Barbie
Third Prince: Wanted to watch Barbie, but watched Oppenheimer with his friends instead.
A little girl died from hunger in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, despite being in the area where aid trucks are distributed. Another family in the north in Gaza city was forced to eat a donkey, which for many in Palestine is inconceivable culturally. Bisan says there isn't even water (clean OR dirty) for them to drink or wash with.
a break from the tsats negativity: top five apollo slay moments let's gooooo
best ask ever i love youuuuuuu
i’ll probably re-read ToA soon and write a better version of this but for now on top of my head:
5) Honestly I need to reread but there’s a scene in ToN where he has to get rid of security guards and he beats the shit out of them with nothing on his hands except spite and a slightly-over-the-average strenght. I was going insane about it.
4) That scene with Commodus in the flashback of TDP. his hair, his throwing grapes in Commodus’ mouth, the fact that he’s the protagonist of the only implied sex scene (post-sex scene but you get me) in RR’s books, his bitches (=Commodus), his “and you’re perfect”.
3) The Titan’s Curse in general. his shades, his car, his hotness, his putting headphones on while Zeus speaks, his haiku, his abs, his hair, his drip, his bitches (=all of us)
2) The smile and “BOO” in TTT. LORD
1) Him coming back to Olympus and getting bigger and bigger in the throne room and being like “so who won the bet?🤨” i’m not even joking i was hyperventilating
honorable mentions to: blinding Commodus, killing Commodus with his voice, drowning Commodus, having the best sex ever with Naomi Solace, beating the shit out of Ares in the Olympus’ Olympics which happens in mythology but not in RR’s books and i’m saying it anyway, all his roasts, yelling at Incitatus (Caligula’s horse) that he’s not going to win because “you have no opposable thumb!!” as if that’s the biggest gotcha ever.