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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
wakeupnew
ourflagmeansgayrights

godddd the way the original e5 “you wear fine things well” scene was backlit by a giant full moon that didn’t actually exist bc this was ed and stede’s fairy tale romance, the way they’re both all dressed up in finery and looking their best after a fancy night out (which didn’t go how either of them expected but that’s not the point the point is it was an Event it was a whole Thing they went to)

and then in the e5 “wear fine things well” 2 electric boogaloo scene the moon is a waxing gibbous because it’s real and stede’s wearing what remains of his fancy suit he had to get rid of and ed’s wearing a fucking. sack and a cat collar. and holding a fucking dead fish. and they’re just catching up after both of them had a pretty normal day doing their own things. this isn’t the picture-perfect fantasy from last season this is both of them grounded in the moment taking it slow because their relationship is worth handling with care. they want this to last and they want this to be real so they’re taking their time, being gentle. they’re not as completely absorbed by each other the way they were last season, they’re their own separate people who can exist in different plotlines for an episode and then come back at the end of the day and catch up, swap stories, kiss and hold hands and just hang out and enjoy being in each other’s presence.

now if you’ll excuse me. i have to go cry.

i have to go cry now too ;_; our flag means death ofmd s2 spoilers
larkspur-9
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AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Semifinals

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Fox Mulder/Dana Scully (The X-Files) vs Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù)

Mulder/Scully

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

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wangxian have my heart but msr have my utmost respect if we're gonna lose we could lose to no one better .....oh shit this means we're probably gonna get msr and spirk in the finals FFFFFFF silly tumblr polls
attractivegkry
alldayallshit

As a leftist Jew who believes strongly in the cause of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, and that Israel has abused them, I am begging fellow leftists to understand that real life is not a comic book. A government being “the bad guy” in a situation does not automatically make anyone who opposes it “the good guy”.

Hamas denies the Holocaust. Hamas disseminates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the conspiracy theory it paints is what they mean by “Zionist”. Hamas forbids foreign aid educators from teaching human rights to Palestinians, and claims that even teaching that the Holocaust happened is a war crime. Hamas has written the aim of annihilating Israel (the country and its people) into its charter—the mass slaughter and violent expulsion of 7 million Jews from the land is written into its laws.

There is no crime any state could ever do that would justify any of that; there is no act of state repression that could ever make it acceptable to side with the organization spreading Nazi pamphlets and Holocaust denial.

Oppose Bibi Netanyahu. Oppose Israel’s far-right, authoritarian government. Oppose its apartheid policies. Oppose its violent abuse of the Palestinian people. That isn’t antisemitic. But Hamas is—verifiably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to its core—antisemitic. Its portrayal of Israeli Jews as blood-thirsty, child-killing master manipulators that control international media and finance is antisemitic. Its insistence that Palestinian freedom necessitates the death & expulsion of Jews from the land is antisemitic. Its redefinition of “Zionism” as a pejorative to mean genocidal Jewish/Israeli Supremacy is antisemitic.

Supporting the Palestinian people in their plight is a noble and loving goal; please never stop that. But do not let Hamas co-opt that into excusing or denying their rampant antisemitism and war crimes.

findingfeather

Seriously, like . . .

Really horrible regimes often get power and popularity from resisting or violently countering external oppression. Like this is a long-standing, extremely predictable part of how humans in groups work under oppressive threat: those who are on the literal sharp end of the oppressive action often latch on to any way to lash back, and anything that feels like it promises either safety or at least the emotional satisfaction of retribution.

That being where it comes from doesn't make the horrible regime less horrible. That's where the Taliban came from. It's a major force behind the Rwandan genocide in the 90s. It's tangled up in the massacres and ethnic cleansing of the Balkans.

(And these regimes are universally just as oppressive and violent to 'their own' people - they usually need the external enemy in order to maintain the unity that gives them power. This is why Hamas is more concerned with getting people to throw themselves in front of IDF fire than it is with making sure people are fed.)

That Hamas is itself horrific and totalitarian does not actually make apartheid policies, settler encroachment and the abuses perpetrated on Palestinians, many of which end in death amongst all the other suffering, okay; and the fact that Israel as a state/political entity carries out those policies and abuses does not make Hamas' stated, impassioned goal of retributive genocide, or the steps it tries to take towards that goal, okay.

These things do not balance each other. There is no balance. There is no cancelling out; this is not a set of scales. This is a dialectic that needs to be faced head on.

If you feel like that leaves you without someone to "root for" in an uncomplicated way, maybe consider the fact that massive complex conflicts involving the legacies of hundreds to thousands of years of the ways that human beings are shit to one another and kill each other aren't a fucking sports match.

It feels shitty; it makes everything feel more awful, and scary, and further from a solution. But it's also how shit is.

current events it has made me physically ill to see so many people i respect(ed) cheer on the slaughter of 1000+ civilians as 'decolonization' or 'justice' i've said it elsewhere but: if this is your idea of justice then fucking miss me with it
iamwestiec
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AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Quarterfinals

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Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor (Supergirl) vs Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù)

Kara/Lena

Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

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vote wangxian so wei ying can go to bed ‼️

reblogging this with seven minutes to go and WANGXIAN IS WINNING GO WANGXIAN GO mdzs the untamed silly tumblr polls