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@eileenthecrow / eileenthecrow.tumblr.com

Thea || 20s || any pronouns || lesbian
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worst relationship status to have w someone is “objectively they’re a fine person who is nice but i don’t enjoy their company as much as they enjoy mine”

second worst relationship status to have with someone is “objectively they’re a fine person but they Bother You”

secret third technically more harmless but in practicality more frustrating relationship status is “objectively they’re a fine person and they like so many of the same things i do but they like them in a fundamentally different way that is harmless but reads wrong to my brain and it has made attempts at forming an actual bond with them aggravating more than anything”

tbh i think stuff like this is why so many people, especially younger people, fall into this trap of “well if i don’t like a person or thing, they must be bad”. it would be so much easier if you could dismiss them as bad and move on. but it’s like, no, Objectively Fine people or things can just not mesh well with you for totally subjective reasons. and sometimes when they’re people you mesh much better with their brain than they do with yours. and sometimes you have to live with that.

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jjunhui

gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.

after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.

al jazeera has managed to maintain infrequent communication with their journalists in gaza. from their reporter wael dahdouh: “we are not fine. body parts are everywhere, missiles are targeting everyone, and the bombing hasn’t stopped for a second.”

do not stop talking about gaza. they are trying to commit genocide in the dark. do not stop talking.

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venezuela, an impoverished and poor country, is doing this at a time when many of the richest countries in the world are cutting off aid to palestinians in the face of a genocidal invasion, by the way

the aid has arrived in egypt and been received by the red crescent. it contains cooking oil, rice, potable water, first aid kits, personal hygiene kits, medical and surgical supplies, bed rolls, generators, water pumps, and gloves.

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white lgbt westerners will make endless excuses for their ignorance, for their racist and sexist and homophobic behaviour because they were never taught anything in school, they’ve never seen a world map until they were 23 years old despite having access to the internet their entire lives, because they grew up in a conservative family and everyone has a nazi phase as a teenager so really what’s the big deal? but if someone living in the largest concentration camp ever built has a homophobic thought in their head that’s grounds for them and their entire people to be genocided. you people treat yourselves like adult infants who should be given endless amounts of second chances while baying for the blood of Palestinians. genuinely you make me sick. I want no part of your homonationalism, you are a fascist and your quirky little queer identity does not in any way take away from that

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unny-posting

listen. i am a white western lgbt. I’ve never met anyone like that. I’m not saying they don’t exist, quite the contrary I’m sure they do, I’m just saying I think it’s irresponsible to generalize entire directions-worth of people because some of them are less than worthless.

stand with Palestine, fuck the Israeli government. Apologies if I used any wrong words, I am often wrong

This is not a new phenomenon, and I’m not talking about a few bad actors - I recommend you read up on homonationalism and pinkwashing, both of which are political strategies that seek to use lgbtq rights as a way to rationalise imperial domination of the global south, which is uniformly positioned as “backwards” “savage” “homophobic” and ultimately “uncivilised” (and uncivilisable). This is a strategy that is also partly intended to break solidarity between oppressed groups within the imperial core to those outside of it by emphasising the orientalist notion of the “backwards arab” who is too religious or too culturally/ethnically deprived to understand the necessity for lgbtq equality (and therefore casting all non-western societies as uniformly cis and heterosexual, only acknowledging the lgbtq people in those societies to point out homophobic hate crimes as evidence of Eastern depravity). I am invoking white, western, lgbt people as a group with particular class and imperial interests, whose equality is promised to them only if they help maintain western state power to keep back homophobic and transphobic “hordes” of brown people from the “Middle East” (which is itself a western-constructed geographical compartment - see Edward Said’s work, written about here and here in a more accessible manner. Familiarising yourself with Orientalism and the history of western imperialism will help you to understand the scope and power of these strategies).

I am generalising this group (which I myself am a part of!) not because I believe every single individual person within this group is anti-Palestine or believes in white supremacy, but because 1) we benefit from homonationalism and pinkwashing directly, and 2) our status as a group is used as a political cudgel to rationalise the destruction of liberation movements outside of the West. Because of these things, coupled with how deeply white supremacy is baked into western government structures and institutions, it is extremely easy for white western lgbt people to grant themselves a patience and mercy with unlearning reactionary attitudes that they are unwilling to grant to non-white, non-western people (including the many lgbtq people who live outside of the west, including lgbtq Palestinian people!). The least we can do in this case is to reject this destiny for ourselves and call out this strategy for what it is - a fascist project that uses lgbtq acceptance as a pretext for rationalising genocide. In this instance, I am fine with overgeneralising, because I think it’s useful to emphasise our group interests over individual political opinions within the group, because we are used as a group to champion western domination.

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cloudmancy

I have to say it. 'enemies to lovers' started going down the shitter when people began treating it like 'people who kind of annoy each other to lovers' ENEMIES to LOVERS is about if two girls FOR REAL want to KILL each other

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