So let your love be kind

more good news from tiktok: they’ve started blocking celebrities.

they’re calling it block party 2024. just blocking and ignoring countless celebrities who havent said shit about palestine. influencers, actors, anyone who went to the met gala, whatever, they’re getting blocked. and people keep talking about how cathartic it is, how good it feels, how they never realized they could DO that. there was some kind of subconscious law against blocking famous people, but it’s broken, and people are LOVING it. and it’s WORKING. a social media/digital advertising coordinator was talking about how ad companies are PANICKING, because they can’t accurately target anymore. so many big influencers, including fucking LIZZO started talking about palestine the MOMENT their follower counts started going down. and the best part? no one is forgiving them. lizzo posted a tiktok asking people to donate to palestinian families, and all the comments just said you’re a multimillionaire. put your money where your mouth is. blocked.

i feel like i’m witnessing the downfall of celebrity culture, right here right now. people are waking up.

PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP. so many comments saying “blocking x celebrity was hard until i remembered they don’t care if i die. it got a lot easier then. they aren’t my friends, why should i feel like im betraying them?” what a beautiful thing to see

does this not fill you with immense pride and joy

(screenshot from stickbugss1 on tiktok)

Reblogging this again now because DON’T GODDAMN FORGET

As a recovering Capitalism True Believer, and a former aspiring economist… this one hurts.

man: has anyone ever told you you’re beautiful? me: oh no sir, today is my first day out of doors and papà forbade mirrors in the house lest we fall victim to vanity

Obi-Wan sporting Ahsoka’s slave outfit from the Zygerria Arc.

[A tweet reading, "How to enjoy fandom:

forgiveness 🌧

I should have known it would take a truely powerful wizard to get me out of this artblock

Switching my language from “Israel is detaining Palestinians in the West Bank” to “Israel is abducting Palestinians in the West Bank” because that’s actually what’s happening. They are not detainees. They are hostages. Innocent Palestinians get taken from their homes randomly, held up in detention centers indefinitely, and subjected to the cruelest conditions on no basis other than “you might do something bad in the future, so we have a right to imprison you.” This is what Israel calls administrative detention—and through it they have managed to get away with kidnapping hundreds of innocent Palestinians.

slow morning

This is a distance of roughly 625 miles and we are going to assume that the speed does not include the time penalty of Spain having a different Rail Gauge than France.

At 890 miles of rail you can get New York to Chicago which would be the ideal first route, but what can you get with 625 miles that makes more since than Columbus?

Well at that distance you can get Raleigh-DC-Philadelphia-NYC- Boston

With intermediate stops in Richmond, Baltimore, New Haven, and Providence

That is a route that is not only good, but has potential to be one of the most used rail lines in the world if it were at high speeds and a cheap price

How about putting some more rails, especially high speed, out here in the midwest, so those of us stuck out here can travel without hours in a car or spending hundreds on a plane ticket?

I guess another route of equivalent length would be St.Paul-Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago- -Indianapolis-louisville

I remember when Obama put aside the money for a rapid light rail system from Chicago to Minneapolis. And the loathsome then Governor of Wisconsin gave the money back, and blocked the project.

@SWSOURCE STAR WARS WEEK Day 1: The Chosen One – Favourite Character DARTH MAUL

Utterly blown away by the kind words and responses to the previous Harrow piece everyone! ❤️

Here’s the matching Gideon Nav, in the same Alphonse Mucha x The Locked Tomb series! (I know, armour isn’t strictly canon, but it’s badass, so yeah. No apologies) Enjoy!

PS: Both this and Harrow will be available in 11” x 17” print form at Otafest this upcoming weekend! (I’ll be at the charity Sketch Drive all three days)! If you’re planning on coming out to the Con, stop by and say hi! :)

Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading

Rare firsthand accounts by Israeli whistleblowers cast light on the horrific conditions in the Sde Teiman torture camp in Naqab Desert. Palestinians are stripped down, blindfolded, forced in diapers, and forbidden from speaking. They are subjected to beatings and mental degradation regularly. So much depravity that has gone unseen. Doctors performing procedures outside of their expertise, amputations due to zip-typing of abductees’ wrists, having large dogs unleashed on them at night. Being fed food through straws. I can’t believe it. I am truly in shock. And this is just one whistleblower accounting of this. Who knows what else is happening beyond our knowledge

My heart is breaking into a million pieces

Worth mentioning that multiple Palestinians have recounted these stories before, as direct victims detailing their experiences. What's unique about these accounts from CNN Israeli whistle-blower is that they're from an Israeli, therefore people are more likely to take this seriously.

"Now I can't let you go You’re the only thing I need to know"

Tasuki

I love tasuki for Jedi. If the robes are a symbol of their culture and history, I love tasuki as some practical companion to those billowing sleeves -- never acceptable in a public or ceremonial setting, but undeniably present in private, domestic moments, every time a Jedi has to cook, or scrub a dish, or change a diaper.

I love the idea that Obi-Wan's been tying his sleeves back since he was a crecheling, just as countless generations of Jedi have done before him.

I think he's a man comforted by ritual. I think that during the Clone Wars, far from his home and his people, he'd wear every damn layer of those robes even in the privacy of his personal quarters, even 7 hours into formwork in the dead of night. And when he inevitably gets irritated by his sleevies and reaches for the tasuki, maybe 🥺 there's a moment where he remembers his home.

I like to think it soothes him. I like to think he feels a little more settled, a little more composed, a little less alone after.

Mostly I like to think of his dear Marshal Commander watching him from across the table, watching the capable, practiced motion of his hands. The way it reveals wrists and forearms, the way it disrupts the clean lines of his collar, revealing 🫣 maybe a scandalous bit of neck. The easy intimacy of this in the middle of the night, sharing the burden of command. I'm weak for it.

Anyways. What beautiful art can be born from an AO3-deprived discord thirst session. 🥺 Raph, this is perfect. His EYES, his hair, the bend of his wrist, GOD.....it's too much, it's all so much.....

@smoosey don’t leave this gold in the tags

for @dontbelasagnax 🫶