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espirit de corps

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one thing I love about dr who lore is that you can be selective about what you take as canon. Because let’s be so fr, the canon is barely canon in dr who.

there are some set events, but everything else is, in dr who terms, in flux. The writers decide to ignore things all the time, and I think it’s iconic that as a fandom we do the same. it helps that a good few writers aren’t the best of people, so you can make the excuse that they didn’t know wtf they were doing running the show (and did they? Who’s to say?)

#dw #i am typically surprised when fans of other shows flail desperately to adhere to established canon #i'm not used to that here in doctor who

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Since I have seen news about the encampments posted around Tumblr, I am about to bring you insider information. I am risking my anonymity, partially my safety, and potentially my reputation to bring you journalism.

How do you know I will do this? Well, allow me to introduce myself (well, as much as you can when you're not writing under your legal name on a website whose best privacy feature is its terrible search function). I have a very close relative in a higher-up position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I will not name them, use their gendered pronouns, state their position, state their exact relationship to me, or do anything that could reveal their identity, as that will also compromise mine. For the sake of this "leak," we will call them O. I ask you, for both of us, do not speculate on O's true identity. If you know who O is, do not tell anyone, in the notes or otherwise, and do not DM me with their name. Do not attempt to find O's social media (they are not active on it as of late), DM them hate comments, or find their relatives and use that against both of us. I am fairly close with O, and while you Tumblrinas might find it hard to suspend your disbelief over this, ask yourself this: if I wasn't related to or knew O, would I be trying to protect them this much?

If you want other sources, sorry. This is a primary-ish source. I wish I could send you more, but I was not in the room where this was decided. If I was in the room where it happened, you *might* have more details. However, I'm pretty sure that members of the UW-Milwaukee encampment are on more social media than me and they can probably back this up to some degree.

Well, with that concluded, let's get on to the news.

Yesterday, I heard O discuss, with the rest of my family, a meeting among UW-Milwaukee higher-ups about the recent encampment. Since that action is technically illegal in the state of Wisconsin (however, I am pretty sure the First Amendment right to peaceful assembly supersedes that), the committee was deciding what to do with them.

Their response for now: Leave them alone. As long as the students are not causing trouble, there is no reason (as of now) to prosecute them. They can exist, surrounding the library. While it looks like it could fizzle out, I doubt it will.

Why am I telling you this? To try and prove that what is happening at Columbia and other places is intentional. To prove that the administration does have the power to call off the guards. They had the power to do nothing (which, while not an ideal solution, is better than students dying). They had to power to settle. And yet, dead students are better than dissenting ones.

O, in the discussion, said that nothing's changed in 3 months. They are wrong. Students have died. The encampments are not just in solidarity with Palestine, but also in solidarity with Columbia students. They are not fair-weather protesters. Things have just reached a tipping point, and it could not be ignored.

I'm Kit at friendlycursedspaceotter. Reporting live-ish from Wisconsin, this is the TBC (Tumblr Broadcasting Collective).

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a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.

There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.

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EVERY WORKER - A MEMBER OF THE BOARD

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Sunshine, ragtime, blowing in the breeze Midnight, looks right Standing more at ease

#furry

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#dw #thoschei

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My 11-month male cat lets my foster kittens nurse on him.

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I started a new disco game and he wasnt there. Straight up just didnt exist.

King??????? Where are you

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The FBI investigates a small town for a case of unexplained poisonings -- but matters take a turn for the worse when they realize they're dealing with the supernatural.

Parabola Parabellum by @twinarted and @untoldultimatum starts May 1! Check it out on Sheezy and ComicFury!

#pbpb #my art #yells

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Sway art variant.

#dw #fave #holy fucking shit #where are all the notes on this

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donna and fourteen talking about the valiant

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I love when I'm watching scifi and the doctors or scientists or whatever argue about each other's technobabble like No quantum beams won't work. You fool. You fucking idiot. As the audience I wasn't even gonna question it like damn my bad... I thought quantum beams might work

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if i said thirteen treats yaz similarly to how ten treats martha i would be cancelled into oblivion but i would have been right.

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He fixed the TARDIS!?

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