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  Anonymous asked:

Hi, I've see you saying that you're reading a lot of fic lately and I was wondering if you could rec some? I so trust your taste and I think we have so many fandons in common...

Hiya! So first, what I was reading over the summer were some new fandoms that I'm still mulling over. Those ships and fics, I'm not ready to recommend anything for, I'll come back to them later.

As you know, I find it hard to pick out faves and recommend things but coincidentally, some time back, when I hadn't read fics for years, I decided to see which I could easily remember. It’s not close to being an exhaustive list, I just noted down whatever came to me over a few hours, and almost all are pretty old, often from my first go-around in each fandom, but it’s a fair number. I've read other great ones that might not be as easily remembered for any number of reasons, like if I was in a particular frame of mind or if I read too many good ones at once so none really stood out, if I read them in between other things going on in life, etc. These ones slotted into the ole memory bank but that doesn't say anything about those left off.

I'm not sure how many of these are fandoms you're into, but when I'm in a real fic-reading mood I'll often try fandoms I don't know, so hopefully you can still give some of them a shot. I tried to organize by fandom though they're mostly in the order I remembered them, so it's not alphabetical or fave first--though it did end up being pretty chronologically backwards. I was literally going back through the years and I don't think I've read some of the anime ones in like, more than a decade? And while for my own list, I often was like oh, all of that author's fics for this ship and would know what I meant, here I tried to narrow it down to one fic per author, since it can be hard to know where to start, but definitely give their other fics a try if you liked that one.

Added a cut for length. All stories are f/f and complete unless specified. As I go through some of these, let me come back here to add that it’s worth keeping in mind as you read these that they are products of their time, some more than a decade ago. 

The Gazan journalist Hossam Shabat has been killed.

He was so young and had already buried so many colleagues and suffered so much.

Despite ceasefire negotiations still going on, Israel has resumed its large scale bombing.

I specify large scale bombing because, as usual with Israel, they killed more than 150 people during the ceasefire too. Separately from the people dying from starvation and lack of proper healthcare and shelter.

Last night was momentous for Gaza: for the first time in Palestine's history, people who had been mass expelled were allowed to return to their homes.

From the start of the genocide, in October 2023, northern Gaza was especially targeted. The news covered the huge "evacuations", where everyone was told to go to the south, a million people given hours to take everything they had to go south, which as it turned out was also not safe.

As the months went by, north Gaza was squeezed further, receiving scant aid, people eating grass, any person still left treated as a combatant. The IDF created the Netzarim corridor and controlled the area between the north and south, killing many of the people who tried to pass.

As bad as things already were, in October 2024, they got even worse. This is when the General's Plan was enacted in all but name, a siege that trapped and starved and bombed and destroyed so much, with the eventual goal of cleaning out the area of Palestinians so Israelis could settle there. This was a brutal thing to follow online, in conjunction with the US elections, as people in the north begged daily for any kind of help at all.

Part of the ceasefire deal that started last Sunday was for people to finally be able to return the north this Saturday, but a dispute delayed that, so for two nights, people slept on the ground and the roads and waited.

And then, finally:

Three years ago, children in Gaza were asked their dream:

This is Israel and Palestine under a ceasefire.

Laila was killed today.

The below is from June 2023, several months before October 7th.

Since the ceasefire started on Sunday, at least 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israel across the West Bank and Gaza.

This is what peace means in Israel and Palestine.

Lots of ominous news nowadays, but there are good things too! Thailand's Marriage Equality Law took effect today!

This tweet takes you to the top of a thread that lists all the changes, like replacing gendered terms like husband and wife with spouses, same-sex marriages have full legal status, same-sex couples can adopt and use IVF and create pre-nups, just a whole lot of steps to make them equal.

It's all just so amazing and joyous. They hosted a parade for the newlywed couples!

First the ADL gives him a pass, now Netanyahu defending him.

Well, yes! Explicitly trying to use Zionism to shield himself from criticism of being a Nazi, but the two aren't incompatible at all.

Criticism of Israel has been treated as antisemitism and been used to censor, fire, suspend, expel, and blacklist people, but as long as you're pro-Israel, you can do a literal Nazi salute. So many journalists, politicians, and institutions who've used their platform to call out support for Palestine are now downplaying a NAZI SALUTE from the richest man in the world who has the ear of the most powerful man in the world.

Same person:

This ignoring, excusing, and even defending of antisemitism has been applied to American Republicans, the Germany's AfD, the UK's Reform, France's RN, far right groups that are dangerous but getting a pass and even boosted because anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, anti-trans, and pro-Israel all currently go hand-in-hand.

I read the article, wondering if this might be a case of two terrible things coinciding, i.e., the Nazi salute AND the mass firing of meteorologists from local news stations and replaced with a feed of the Weather Channel but no, CBS 58 has quietly removed her and is looking for a replacement. It seems she was directly fired for this:

She worked there for five years and had just posted in support of the other fired local meteorologists.

People are already starting to reach out to CBS 58.

Twitter: https://x.com/CBS58

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General Information: (414) 777-5800

Tip Line: (414) 777-5808

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I'm not very good at text posts, I never know where to start, it's why most of what I write are tags on gifsets and replies to asks. It helps me to have something to go off of.

Yesterday, I wrote a bit about the first day of the ceasefire in Gaza, but I left out some events in the West Bank. I saw this tweet today and I think it gives me a good starting point:

A few people in the replies asked: what about the ceasefire?

This IS Palestine under a ceasefire. This is Palestine before Oct 7th. They don't have the right to defend themselves, the peaceful status quo that creates no headlines is the steady hum of Palestinians being attacked and killed as their homes and livelihood are destroyed, kidnapped and held for possibly years on "administrative detention", which means no charge or trial.

And "It begins."? I searched Google news for "West Bank killed" and picked a random page:

To be clear, this is the West Bank, not Gaza. Hamas is only the ruling party in Gaza and ostensibly the target of Israel's "war", but that clearly hasn't protected Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel increased their attacks after October 7th and might yet escalate now, with Gaza quiet, but for those that say "there was a ceasefire on October 6th", there is this headline:

As astute observer might note the date.

To go back to current events, this happened yesterday in the West Bank:

This child was killed.

This detainee died in Israeli prison, held for months without charge:

A youth injured:

Did you hear about any of that? Did the media and world governments talk about Palestine's right to defend itself or how it can possibly live with a violent, hateful neighbor like this?

Today, day 2, back to Gaza, more aid is getting in, thankfully:

Finally! Imagine the number of young children going without candy or even fresh fruits and vegetables for so long.

Rebuilding continues:

The recovery and identification of bodies continues:

We also have Israeli forces firing on Palestinians who get near to Rafah, killing two. Yes, already on day 2 of the ceasefire in Gaza, two people (just in Gaza) dead. There's video of their deaths here, a child being shot and the man who tried to help him. Apparently instead of warning him off, they decided he was a threat:

There continue to be new attacks in the West Bank today, the ones referred to in the very first tweet. They tend to come from any combination of Israeli settlers, police, and the IDF.

Currently, the police have shot two settlers they thought were Palestinians and the whole area has now been locked down.

They've arrested many Palestinian men...for what? When will they let them go?

So ends day 2 of the ceasefire.

At Trump's inauguration today, Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. Or an awkward gesture. Or it was because of Asperger's. I've included quotes made about the video first, then the video at the end.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the civil rights organization formed to combat antisemitism and that works with the US government and institutions, has recently been in conflict with Wikipedia.

In June of last year, Wikipedia's editors marked the ADL as unreliable in matters concerning Israel or Palestine, given its pro-Israel stance.

Yesterday, following arbitration, Wikipedia banned certain editors for spreading antisemitic rhetoric.

After Musk's salute/gesture today, the ADL posted:

The Newsweek editor Batya Ungar-Sargon, formerly progressive, but having shifted somewhat lately, and who is publishing this book:

Posted this:

This man has consistently boosted literal Nazis on his site, through his algorithm and payments and actually by responding and retweeting! He's a friend to Israel, which gives him a pass for everything else. You'll see that happen often, that conservatives who are pro-Israel and also antisemitic are praised for the first part and ignored on the second.

Am I blaming the antisemitism itself on Zionists? No. But are watchdogs and institutions allowing a scary amount of right-wing behavior because their focus is on criticizing anti-Israel sentiment? Well, see for yourself what the gesture he does twice is.

So the first day of the ceasefire ends.

The mood is bittersweet. There's celebration:

But so much destruction:

So many dead :

I won't attach the multiple pictures of skeletons, some unidentified in the streets, some with bullet holes in the skulls left in family homes.

This is the first day of a very, very long journey, still perilous because Trump can't be trusted either. Please continue to boost Palestinians and donate to fundraisers.

Leaving you with Jehad Abu Shamala raising the call to prayer in Gaza this morning.