fuck college i should be cuddling my love and watching a very dumb movie instead

safety, health, liberation for the people of palestine……that is the goal. everything else is just noise.

it is easy to let ourselves fall into despair when reading these latest messages from bisan, from motaz, from saleh….the grief and hopelessness in their words is unfathomable, but it only means that the rest of us have to keep doing everything we can.

i saw someone talk about this on twt as well but once u engage with organizers offline it is clear that the movement is alive and well, that the fight will continue on…..let this grief sit with you and will us all into action, please.

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

the copification of peter parker in recent years is insidious and also gay

disclaimer: i love spider-man ps4 it is an awesome freaking game + has some of the better peter parker characterization we’ve gotten in recent years. BUT. the INSISTENCE that peter WORKS with cops and RESPECTS cops and is simply an AID to the police is so goddamn annoying and blatantly wrong. peter’s relationship with the cops is at BEST tolerant and generally mutually negative. he usually shows up way before they do + does their jobs for them in a way distinctly un-coplike. i can think of 3 incidents off the top of my head where peter actively interferes with arrests because he doesn’t think the cops are being fair. not to mention being a vigilante is a crime in of itself—and that’s not including the trespassing, breaking + entering, assault + battery, etc that he gets up to on a daily basis. sure, he’ll work with cops if it’s the most efficient way to help people in a given scenario, but he’s not their friend. just pisses me off seeing how marvel keeps trying to push some spider-man / cop parallel that doesn’t exist. fuck spider-cop

i’m almost done. it always bothers me in the very beginning—the big fisk takedown—when peter waits until he has PERMISSION from the police captain to go kick ass inside the building. don’t make me laugh. the peter i know would’ve whipped right past all the cop cars going Neener Neener Nyah Nyah and taken care of fisk in 15 minutes while the cops still scratched their heads and stood around cause they couldn’t find a pet dog to shoot

Based off this tweet idk I had to draw miko as it shfjshshshh

it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all

but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help

i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.

the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.

i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.

You would be able to watch Goncharov in Nod

To be clear: the WGA are still on strike! Them and the studios have reached a deal, but it's not in writing just yet, and the contract needs to be approved on all sides

So the guild still wants writers to strike, encouraging them to join the SAG-AFTRA picket line

did i even tell you guys how i pretended to know how to play an instrument for three years and only two people ever figured it out.

i don't mean i was like. telling people i could play guitar, i mean i was sitting in band class holding a french horn to my lips and looking at the music and not understanding any of it or knowing how to play a single note. for 3 years.

the two people who knew were my best friend who knew i was too stupid to play such a complicated instrument and the only other hornist in my section who had to desperately cover for me because he knew i had blackmail material on him. i only came clean this year in my senior speech and to this day people still call me mellophony and the no hit wonder.

i saw the other hornist tonight and asked why he played along with me this whole time and he shrugged and said it was mostly because he thought it was funny. he didn't care about the blackmail

not the scariest thing u did in school tbh

unfortunately true. shout-out to the spiders

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I will always reblog a shout-out to the spiders.

Good morning everybody

Really wish words like “crossdresser” and “transvestite” didn’t get pushed out of people’s vocabulary cause now we’ve got 20yr olds who genuinely believe the two modes of expression are True Transgender and Valor Thief. Seeing takes like “men dressing as women is making a mockery of the transfeminine experience” (predominantly regarding F1nn5ter or celebs in skirts). Like ohhhh you are so right! We need to protect the divine feminine from any measure of mockery. You know what? We should gather weapons and storm our nearest Drag Story Hour and teach those degenerates a lesson.

Agree with everything else but it really depends what you mean by “finn’s egg cracked” because he still does not ID as trans and people are mad about it. He apparently described himself as not trans and not cis and there was uproar about how it isn’t a thing or he needs to pick one—again, deciding either he is True Transgender or a Valor Thief.

He could end up coming out as trans, he could end up finding he likes labels like “nonbinary” OR he could still identify with GNC labels. All of which are not really our business and I feel sorry that this young kid’s whole identity is out there for everyone to scrutinize.

I really really hate tumbr’s obsession with egg cracking and deciding that everyone is either in denial and needs to be prematurely assigned labels, or is a faker stealing resources in which case queer community is restricted from them instead of just giving the guy space to figure out what he wants.

so many people think the point of queerness is to just replace cisheteronormativity with a better set of boxes to fit everyone in rather than rejecting the idea that it's your job to tell anyone else what their box is

I think that tme people have heard a lot of things about terfs that give them a false impression of who can be a terf. yes, most terfs are heterosexual. but there are bisexual and lesbian terfs. yes, terfs are racist. but there are still terfs who are poc. yes, terfs are antisemitic. but there are still jewish terfs. yes, terfs are intersexist. but there are still intersex terfs. yes, terfs are ableist. but there are still disabled terfs. yes, terfs are transphobic. but there are still nonbinary and transmasc terfs. if you're not transfem, and especially if you were afab, terfs will happily accept you into their "sisterhood".

like, if you think I'm being harsh here, you need to understand that for trans women, we have to see them all. you might think that because you're [insert marginalized identity], you couldn't possibly be a terf. but I can guarantee you I've been personally harassed by a terf who shares that exact same identity, and a lot of trans women can say the same. are they less common than the stereotypical cishet white christian perisex able-bodied women that you imagine all terfs to be? absolutely, but they still exist. and it doesn't particularly matter if they don't check all those boxes, because at the end of the day, they're still calling me a male-socialized rapist who will never be a woman and telling me to kill myself! it doesn't matter to them that the movement they're a part of harms people like them - people like you - because they hate people like me more.

it would be nice if we could all pretend that terfs are this tiny group of ultra-privileged conservative women but when you're transfem it becomes so glaringly obvious that that's nothing more than an illusion. terfs are a fairly large hate group, one that includes people from any background you can imagine, excluding transfems. if it bothers you to be reminded that there are terfs who share the same background as you, then do something about it. they're everywhere - they could be your family, your friends, your co-workers, your classmates. start advocating for trans women, especially the ones who also share the same background as you, and shield them from transmisogyny. learn to actually recognize transmisogyny and nip it in the bud when people start spouting off terf talking points - it's better not to let them become terfs at all. you're not helping any trans women when you plug your ears and pretend that people just like you can't possibly be violent transmisogynists.

If homophobes weren't so awful to LGBT people, then maybe we'd be happier.

This one really does just gain momentum with every new word, huh?

final project for my jewish studies class ! the assignment was to answer the question, “WHAT IS JEWISH ART?” after spending the semester studying jewish artists from the 20th century, so here are my thoughts on the intersection of art and identity.

goyim can interact w this post but don’t clown in the comments thx

Yes Naruto would have Wart Jr on his island