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🤔 … Francesca Albanaese has conducted a study: ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’, very telling. Here are some facts. — and still the world leaders/powers look on. Not the ‘younger generations’ though!!!
By: LaillaB, founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’, from LinkedIn …
“Israel has destroyed Gaza’
By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, the “Anatomy of a Genocide” report concludes reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.
One of the key findings is that Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted ‘jus in bello’ principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against Palestinians.
In this report, Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 (“oPt”), addresses the crime of genocide as perpetrated by the State of Israel (“Israel”) in the oPt, specifically in the Gaza Strip, since 7 October 2023.
As Israel prohibits her visits, this report is based on data and analyses from organisations on the ground, international jurisprudence, investigative reports and consultations with affected individuals, authorities, civil society and experts.
Since it imposed the siege on Gaza in 2007, which tightened the closure imposed since 1993, Israel, the occupying power, has carried out five major assaults before the present one.
By Day 9, this assault had already caused more deaths (2,670) than Israel’s previous deadliest war against Gaza, in 2014 (2,251) . Only a fraction of the mass killing, severe harm and ruthless, life-threatening conditions inflicted on Palestinians over the following months of assault can be captured in this report.
UN experts, 5 scholars, 6 and states, 7 including South Africa before the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”), 8 have warned that acts committed in this latest onslaught may amount to genocide.
The ICJ found a plausible risk of “irreparable prejudice” to the rights of Palestinians in Gaza, a protected group under the Genocide Convention, 9 and ordered Israel, inter alia, to “take all measures within its power” to prevent genocidal acts, prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and ensure urgent humanitarian aid.
In its defense, Israel has argued that its conduct complies with international humanitarian law (“IHL”).
A key finding of this report is that Israel has strategically invoked the IHL framework as “humanitarian camouflage” to legitimise its genocidal violence in Gaza.
The context, facts and analysis presented in this report lead to the conclusion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.
More broadly, they also indicate that Israel’s actions have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its SETTLER-COLONIAL project in PALESTINE, signalling a tragedy foretold.
“It’s my solemn duty to report” -
GENOCIDE: ISRAEL: COLONISATION!!
“I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate … It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.” — Mandela! … 🤔
A tragedy foretold —.🕊
#reclaimthenarrative — 🍉 — 🍉 #FreePalestine … @hrexach …
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magicaleggplant · 2 days
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extremely belated montreal worlds impressions, part 2
part 1 (pairs and women recap)
finally finishing this a whole month after worlds... i'm traveling again over the next couple of weeks and i've barely recovered from montreal! anyways, here's the (very rushed) ice dance and men recap.
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ICE DANCE
...is a fake sport, but i enjoy the vibes? i don't know a lot about the technicalities of ice dance despite having watched it for many years, so it mostly comes down to whether i like a team or not. overall i enjoyed the event, the free dance more than the rhythm dance (there are only so many 80s RDs i can take...) there were a lot of enjoyable free dances, even in the early groups! i actually enjoyed them more than the final group, in a way. the podium in ice dance tends to be too predictable.
chock/bates: i've never had much of an opinion on this team. i liked them best when they were doing character pieces like the snake charmer fd, but i also found myself enjoying their rhythm dance at worlds. they skated it very well and it was fun and engaging. the free was a bit of a question mark... i thought they had a lot of interesting positions throughout, especially in the lifts and choreographic elements, but the whole program felt a bit disjointed to me. it was fine, it didn't leave much of an impression. the whole did not feel like more than the sum of the parts... their speed was also not the best.
gilles/poirier: i can't remember much from their rd except that piper's costume was amazing, i loved her holographic leggings. their free was a MOMENT, though. wuthering heights has been one of my favorite free dances all season, and it was so good to see it live in front of a home crowd. they are such good storytellers, and when their choreo hits, it really hits. i love when they do something unusual like this program - it doesn't always work, but in this case, it did. the placement of that curve lift was perfect. i will note, however, that they are also not particularly fast.
guignard/fabbri: nearly swore out loud when her dress caught on her skate right in front of me. that was a nerve-wracking few seconds until the end. their free dance was beautiful and suited them really well, i especially loved the choreo assisted jumps near the beginning. their skating skills are clean and precise. i just wish their rhythm dance didn't have such a godawful music cut. none of their RDs have suited them well in the last few seasons.
fear/gibson: no thoughts, head empty, vibes only. in all seriousness, i enjoyed their rhythm dance, it's fun and it's a great fit for them. i did not enjoy rocky. i would have loved it as an exhibition, but not as a competitive program. i can see how it's a crowd-pleaser, though. they were definitely popular with the audience.
lajoie/lagha: probably one of, if not the most popular team with the audience! they are one of the teams i'm most looking forward to seeing in the coming years. i became a fan when i saw them live at last season's skate canada. they skate big and fast, they have good skating skills and both programs were well-choreographed. their rd is a lot of fun - that's how you incorporate a theme and commit to it! i love how most of the dance moves are choreographed into the step sequences instead of stopping and posing. the fd music is a little one-note and i still prefer last season's white crow fd, but their skating quality makes up for it. i'm so glad they were still able to skate at worlds after marjorie's concussion earlier in the season.
carreira/ponomarenko: loved both of their programs, especially their fd. i never knew they could pull off drama so well. their growth in the last two seasons has been phenomenal. it was hilarious that the audience kept getting faked out by the music in the end and clapping before the program ended. i probably would've had them a place higher in the standings.
other notes:
i came out of worlds with an unexpected appreciation for lopareva/brissaud. i never paid much attention to them before, but their skating skills were impressive. i don't think the audience really "got" their rd, but props to them for choosing to do something different. the fd was a snooze, though.
i also enjoyed demougeot/le mercier's free dance. some really interesting choreo moments.
turkkila/versluis: enjoyed their free dance as well, it's a nice look on them.
lim/quan's fd was another Moment! i am super excited for this team and how far they've come in their first senior season. hannah's acting and expressions are god-tier... they need to work on speed and SS, but their fd was gorgeous and one of my favorites of the event.
felt so bad for the taschlers' fall in the rd. i think they were the fastest team in the whole ice dance event, it's so impressive how powerful their skating is. i have questions about their packaging sometimes but i really like this team, and i hope next season goes better for them.
orihara/pirinen's fd was another favorite of the event. they are both SO expressive and fun. in any other team, yuka would outshine her partner, but juho not only keeps up with her but complements her perfectly!
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MEN
this was the event i was most looking forward to at worlds, and it did not disappoint. as chaotic as i was expecting it to be, i did not anticipate that it would be quite that chaotic. men be menning, as always.
ilia: i wish it were otherwise, but his competitive performances were just not doing it for me. his weaker skating skills were very obvious live when compared to many other top men. i like his sp choreo but i feel like he's put less performance into it with every competition. it was disappointing to see how much he slowed down during the step sequence. (granted, he did have an undisclosed injury at worlds, so that could have been an exacerbating factor.) the free was...historic. i genuinely wish i felt something while watching it, because the audience was losing their shit with every jumping pass lol. and why shouldn't they! like...what the fuck! this is the most incredible jump drill the world has ever seen! who knows when or if he can replicate it again! ...but it's still a jump drill. (side note about how irrationally annoyed the choreo sequence makes me. it's just randomly tacked on the end, the music cut is so abrupt, it has nothing to do with the rest of the program, shae lynn why.) and then i watched him in the gala and he was like a completely different skater. complete 180. the difference was so stark, i could hardly believe it. he can perform! he was giving more in that teenage-angst-ridden exhibition than i've seen in all his competitive programs combined. i can only hope that he brings more of that energy to competition someday, because that's the kind of skating i want to see, that's a skater really connecting with the music and the audience.
yuma: i'm about to heap an embarrassing amount of superlatives on this kid. it was my first time seeing him live, and he was everything i'd hoped for. jumps light as a feather, running edges for days. (you should have heard my ungodly shriek when he landed his 4F in front of me! it looked so easy.) skating skills - sublime, every stroke effortless, excellent speed. but what i'm most impressed with is his artistic improvement this season. he's always been an incredible technician (and i have a lot of thoughts about how ilia is being branded as The Technician and yuma The Artist now, when in fact yuma's technique is just as good, only with lower base value, and his SS are far superior, but i digress) but he has really put in the work to become a better performer and fine-tune everything from his body movements to his interpretation of music. jokes about making me like imagine dragons aside, i think his sp helped him explore music and sharp movements that were out of his comfort zone. loved that step sequence. (the only criticism i have is that he needed more swagger. he needed some more of what adam was serving in his sp, a certain cockiness and suaveness. but yuma has always been a more introverted skater. i think that kind of expression is still difficult for him.) the free was simply glorious. i didn't think i would like yet another rain in your black eyes program, and i was side-eyeing lori nichol for giving yuma this music after she used it for sui/han. but yuma made it his own. there were so many beautiful moments perfectly timed to the music. (ina bauer! spiral! and the step sequence, ahhh) he was so close to being clean, there was an audible groan in the audience when he fell on the 3A, but then they cheered him on until the end, which was heartwarming. what an incredible comeback season from yuma. i'm so excited for his future, i think he has so much potential and many bright moments ahead. now i've written a goddamn novel already, but i haven't even mentioned werther yet. i'll just say that his exhibition is one of the most beautiful programs i've ever seen, competitive or otherwise, and it shows off everything good about yuma's skating. perfect. no notes.
adam: where the fuck do i even start. honestly...if i could only remember one moment from all of montreal worlds, it would be his free skate. it was THE skate of the event. the mounting excitement as he landed all his jumps. the way i said "oh my god" out loud as he set up for the backflip, then landed it in front of me. the audience in complete hysterics. i can't even describe what the arena was like after his free skate. it was. insane. it genuinely felt like there was electricity in the air. the screams were deafening. my heart was pounding. it took me an entire group of skaters to come down from that adrenaline high, lmao. meanwhile, adam sat there in the green room...for hours and hours...and then ended up getting bronze because why the fuck not lmao. it was kind of the perfect conclusion of a chaotic season and a chaotic worlds. yeah, that free skate was THE moment. on another note, i don't actually like his free that much from a choreo standpoint. i think he's one of the most expressive and unique skaters in the field today, and he can pull off a lot of benoit's weirdness, but this free just isn't one of my favorites. it's extremely memorable though, for sure. his sp, on the other hand, was a disaster, but i really appreciated how he kept performing despite the messy jumps. he skated the step sequence like the jump mistakes didn't even happen. that's the sign of a committed performer. i'm very excited to see what else adam has to bring in the future, though i hope he doesn't start throwing in backflips too often - they're only fun when they're infrequent and unexpected.
shoma: shoma has a particular way of moving that is so unique to him. where yuma's skating is springy and light, shoma's skating has weight. it's very difficult to describe, but i mean it in a good way. it's the way everything he does feels so deliberate. he has excellent upper body carriage and his movements really project out into the audience. his sp step sequence was a highlight. he has an innate musicality that is natural to him. truth be told, i haven't liked his programs as much since he moved to stephane, but it was good to see his skating live again. i don't know if shoma will retire soon or keep competing, but if that was his last competition, i'm glad to have seen it, jump issues aside. i first heard of him as a novice skater back when i was first becoming a skating fan. i've been through quite a few generations of skaters' retirements, at this point. still an odd feeling when it might be someone you first saw as a tiny child, though. i also enjoyed his exhibition, it was a different style for him.
i wrote way too much about the top 4, so i'm going to try to keep the rest of this short:
jason: i'm just glad he's still skating. the world needs more of him, for as long as he's willing to give it.
lukas: very fun, i enjoyed him quite a bit.
deniss: finally! a clean short! more of that and fewer quad attempts, please.
kao: ugh. the collective wince in the arena on those falls... i wanted him to skate a clean attack on titan so badly, i love that program for him. he's very talented and INSANELY fast (cannot stress this enough, his speed is mind-blowing) but still lacking in control, and his performance skills need work as well. i hope this worlds was a good learning experience for him.
nikolaj: he's...so tall lmao. amazing lines. good musicality. terrible spins. looking forward to his improvement.
junhwan: the way i put my hands to my face as he fell on the 3A right in front of me... i just hope next season is healthier for him. he's a very, very quality skater and he deserves better.
don't talk to me about boyang
last but not least, shoutout to donovan for those incredible personal best skates! he still needs a lot of work on his SS and speed, but i really hope his jump consistency keeps improving.
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all in all, worlds was just...a tornado of emotions. some bad, most good. it was my first time seeing the world championships live, and i'm really glad i had the experience. for anyone thinking of going to worlds in the future, please be aware that the days are LONG. i skipped all the practices and some earlier groups of the short programs in order to explore the city, and i was still completely wiped out after every day of competition. it took me several weeks to recover, lol. thanks montreal! i definitely won't forget that week.
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garadinervi · 3 months
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Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024, A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP), February 1, 2024 (pdf here)
Plus: A Talk About Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, by ArabLit Staff, ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly, February 8, 2024
(image: «This is what remains of my younger brother's home library. My brother is an extraordinary scholar of Arabic language grammar and was about to earn his PhD and who has introduced six books into the Arabic language rich collection of scholarly books.» – Mosab Abu-Toha)
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bialbovi · 13 days
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Hi tumblr artists
Please report milanson
She is a russian who explicitly supports russian invasion of Ukraine, russian military, draws zwastika (z) in her works, draws humanizations of countries, and degrades Ukraine by doing so. Also spreads russian propaganda
She has the audacity to include Ukraine in her tags
Draws the conservative russian political party affiliated with Putin and Medvedev
We can create a space without russian supporters freely drawing russian propaganda by reporting it
Upd, last picture: she's also very obviously racist, but I don't want to scroll her telegram anymore. You can check it out yourself 💀
Upd 2: People are telling me that proper reports do not really work on people who promote genocide and draw nazi symbols. Maybe if we can not properly report it, we should report it for spam or sexual content (what a shame, tumblr. Is it possible to criticize them for letting tumblr users post swastika? I'd like to talk with tumblr)
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brooke2valley · 7 months
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Hey, so there's a person impersonating me and sending self harm photos in dm.
https://www.tumblr.com/brooke2vaiiey
This is them. Report and block them please, thank you.
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transformativeworks · 27 days
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IFD 10th Anniversary Survey Report
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Our report on the results of the IFD2024 Survey is now available! Get your copy in English at https://otw.news/rwv or in additional languages at the links below.
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moonjxsung · 3 months
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I take a short break to rekindle my mental health and I come back to somebody stealing my 30k fic and claiming it as their own, going so far as to place their own copyright on it and change the title and everything. I just can’t seem to get a break these days
Anyways, unfortunately there will be no further publishing of work on here until wattpad takes action against that account. These stories take me hours to write and I’m not publishing anything else if it’s at risk of being copy pasted and praised on a whole different platform by a complete stranger. Unfortunate too, considering I have half a new fic already sitting in my drive I stayed up until 3am working on.
Please help your authors when our work gets plagiarized and reposted. I’m not making money off of this, it’s a hobby that takes me a good chunk of my life and it hurts to see people disrespect that so openly. I ask for nothing on here- neither financial gain, nor praise. Just respect. I’ve always said if my full length fics are copy pasted I won’t hesitate to deactivate and I truly, honestly mean that.
Please report it here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/357109291-our-way
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huariqueje · 1 month
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Yesterday 10 March , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Israel's Issac Herzog Attends Dutch Holocaust Museum Opening Amid Gaza War Protests
The Dutch Jewish anti-Zionist group Erev Rav, organizing the protest with the Dutch Palestinian Community and Socialist International, said that while it honors the memory of Holocaust victims, it could not stand by while the war in Gaza continued.
Human rights group Amnesty International put up detour signs around the new museum to direct Herzog to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. 
The museum in Amsterdam showcases stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and killed in Nazi camps. It also chronicles their structural persecution under the German World War II occupation before the deportations began.
The protest leaders emphasized they were against Herzog's presence, not the museum and what it commemorates. 
People demonstrate on Waterlooplein against Issac Herzog's presence. The demonstrators shout slogans such as 'Free Palestine' and 'Never again is now'. Many people carry Palestinian flags. A representative of the Jewish organization Erev Rav emphasized in a speech that there are no protests against the museum. “We are happy that the museum is there. But how is it possible that such a sacred place as the Holocaust Museum is used to normalize genocide? We are here to say: not in our name.”
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silvermoon424 · 2 months
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I don’t normally post stuff like this but can y’all help me report this guy? He’s been relentlessly spamming me on Youtube for WEEKS trying to get my attention because I asked him to stop self-promoting on other channels. Now he’s even using info from my blog to harass me. I’m not his only target but he seems to have it out for me in particular. He also has sock puppets upvoting his comments and echoing his bigoted opinions.
This was funny at first but now I’m legit annoyed.
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dixonsgirl93 · 1 month
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Attention!
Hi there followers!
I don’t normally make posts like this, however something has been brought to my attention.
The account: Garma-mom
They interacted with my blog a while ago and became aggressive out of nowhere. I genuinely do not understand what I did to initially upset them.
However, I’ve been told they have been this way (becoming friends and then becoming hostile for no apparent reason) with a few other people on this site.
I don’t want to tell any of you what to do but I will recommend blocking Garma-mom even if their first few interactions with you are positive.
Just be aware.
Edit: here’s an example…
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I have them blocked again now but someone else pointed out they made this post in response to one I made recently.
I don’t know why they feel the need to publicly hate on my name like this but I advise if you’ve faced anything similar to this, please block and report them.
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chichiichiii347 · 6 months
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Apparently, In today’s show (06/11), Kaoru cosplayed as Enrico Pucci from Jojo. Toshiya wore a glamorous (sequin?) dress with a high slit and no sleeve on one side, dark eye shadows, red lipstick; during encore he wore the Tour long sleeves sweatshirt with short shorts and knee high leg cover (? some fans said knee high boots), which looked a lot like Sugizo’s style.
The band did a cover of B-T’s NATIONAL MEDIA BOYS, at the end of the song, Toshiya raised his head to look at the sky and threw a kiss, the fans said it was a very touching scene, Totchi and the band must have loved and respected Sakurai san a lot.
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bloghrexach · 13 days
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🇵🇸 … going to research it!!
“By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met.
One of the key findings is that Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.” … 🇵🇸
@hrexach
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block-list-poster · 1 year
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doomsdynamite285 · 4 months
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I would please like to have everyone’s attention please. There is currently a tarot/pick a card account that did a game for more followers and then just scammed everyone.
They created a very detailed Christmas FS reading game where over 100 people followed them to enter just for them to ignore the claimed winners of the game for over two weeks and now they have deleted the game, any comments made under their recent posts that called them out (there were dozens), and have just continued on like nothing happened by creating ANOTHER game.
I looked forward to this reading because it was suppose to be a very detailed reading and required a lot (following them, liking several posts, reblogging/sharing several posts). I did everything for it and they promised to give each reading on the day of Christmas as almost a Christmas gift. If I’m correct, there was at least 12-15 winners too.
Anyway, I’m tired of people coming on here to do these games just to play people and ignore so they can keep the extra followers they gained by false promises. I had a feeling they might try to pull something like this so thankful I took plenty of screenshots.
The account name is: @s1ncer3dreams
The screenshots I have are their announcement of the winner of the games, when it was suppose to be given to us, and also other winners DMed each other to discuss how they were ignoring everyone and continuing the make more content instead. I won’t be sharing who DMed me about the shared experience but they can comment to pitch in and agree or state they are one of the people. The last pictures arethose initial winners post with the ENTIRE list of winners (when they tagged me, it went straight to email) AND their initial game post of what they promised.
PEOPLE LIKE THIS THAT LIE AND HAVE NEGATIVE ENERGY ARE NOT THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO RECEIVE ANY INTUITIVE OR TAROT READINGS. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN ANY OF THEIR PAC POSTS OR GAMES.
They are currently creating new content and reblogging a bunch of other PAC content to cover up what they’ve deleted about the game.
PLEASE SHARE TO WARN OTHER AND BLOCK THEM.
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argumentl · 3 months
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2024/01/20 aknot only Gorilla Hall Osaka - Report
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I only applied for this date on this tour, so I feel super lucky to have gotten it, especially for such an iconic anniversary!
This was my first time at Gorilla Hall, but the entrance process was super organized and easy. I had quite a high ticket number, so was fairly far back when I first got inside, but I could see the stage, so wasn't too bothered. HOWEVER, there are no rails in Gorilla Hall other than the front rail! So as soon as the lights went down for the show to start, there was a big rush forward, and I pretty much found myself nicely mid crowd, only a few meters from the front, shimote of course! Happy!!
From the start there was so much fan service! Kaoru and Die standind together, Die and Toshiya standing together, Kaoru and Kyo standing together, everyone gathering around Shinya....even in the first few songs!
Die and Toshiya in particular looked...close. At one point Die stood behind Toshiya and rested his chin on Toshiya's shoulder, spoke in his ear, and after that even got down on his knees and played his guitar while looking up at Toshiya! 
Yes, I did see the other members a bit this time, haha. There was a spotlight behind Kaoru for quite some time, which would shine directly into my eyes and blind me whenever he stepped out of its beam, so I was forced at times to look elsewhere to save my eyesight 😂
Kyo was still bald, all white make up with black eyes. He looked really spooky. 
Toshiya was in his sparkly dress to start, and for the encore he wore a leopard print shirt, with the tiniest tight shorts ever. I only saw his shorts at the end when he stood up high on the truss, and I initialy thought he had lost his trousers somehow, haha (his shorts really just looked as small as underwear), but then i realised this was his actual outfit 😂 
Kaoru was in his black jacket/white shirt/waistcoat combo, looking like a total aristocrat. Blonde hair, combed back 😍 And for the encore he wore a White Zombie band tshirt! 
Kaoru was using his pink ganesa for Yurameki at the start, but changed to a few other guitars during the rest of the show. He also took off his black jacket few songs in. 
The set list was amazing, as follows:
mode of adam
yurameki
Schwein no isu
Zomboid
Eddie
Mouai ni shosu
Myaku
304 goushitsu
Tsumi to batsu
Obscure
Byou shin
Karma
Unknown...Despair...a Lost
zan
ΕΝ.
Akuro no oka
Followers
Filth
Child Prey
So many of these songs were songs that I was listening to when I first became a fan of Dir over 20yrs ago, so it was actually surreal hearing them all live together like this. Especially having just watched the newly released footage from 1999, hearing Schwein, Tsumi to batsu, Byou shin, Karma together...omg, it was overwhelming! 
And Akuro no oka! The audience was quiet for the whole song, and gave a respectful applause when it finished. It was really emotional. 
My fave part of the encore was actual during Filth! Something came over Kaoru, its almost like he became the song...he was roaming the front rows of the crowd with his eyes, but his facial expressions just exuded the MOST erotic filth! Its like he was thinking about dirty, dirty things, and it showed on his face! If I had been in the front few rows, I would be dead for sure! 
At one point I saw him pointing straight in my direction, with his head tilted and eyes half closed, but that wasn't during Filth, haha. 
I didn't catch anything this time, but I did get watered on by Kaoru, Toshiya, and Die, so Im happy! Kaoru's bottle flew straight over my head, and when I was on my way out I saw a big puddle of (real) blood on the floor where it had landed, so Im assuming there was either a struggle, or someone had slipped on the water that splashed out of it. But there was a venue staff member standing there to stop people walking through it on the way out. 
Kyo, Shinya, and Toshiya left the stage, and then Kaoru smiled and pointed at Die before leaving. The Die came over and tapped the mic, and said, 'Can I say something?' 
He gave a really emotional speech about how they have come this far due to the support they have from fans and people around them, and he acknowledged that Dir en grey will have to end one day, due to the members being only human. But until that time, they will continue to cherish playing lives and being with fans. Then he said like, 'so Im not gonna let you die before us, promise me' 
You heard it everyone, you gotta look after yourself, and keep living for Dir, and they will do the same for you!
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