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As native Gazans, the plight of my family weighs heavily on my heart. Trapped in our beloved city of Rafah, they sought refuge there after my grandmother's cancer diagnosis necessitated treatment unavailable elsewhere. However, the encroaching presence of a militant force has turned our once vibrant home into a battleground. Hindered by my grandmother's frail health, fleeing was not an option. Now, they are ensnared atop an apartment building overrun by militia, surrounded by danger and uncertainty. My aunts, both battling illness and injuries, along with my young cousins, are trapped in a nightmare. As a fellow Gazan and well-wishers, I implore you to extend your compassion and aid. Please, help us bring my family to safety amidst this turmoil.

Consider extending your support to my family during this hour of darkness.

Thank you for sharing, and I'm sorry you and your family are going through that. As a person who descends from holocausts survivors, all I can say is never again means never again for everyone.

I can't begin to imagine your heartbreak right now. I would love to support you and your family, financial or otherwise. As a student, I can't donate much, but I will try my best. Thank you for reaching out and for being here. They can't win as long as you are here. Take care of yourself.

#free palestine #never again

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happy for Stede, but I feel so bad for the Trauma Crew :(

like, they FINALLY put an end to Ed’s reign of violence and terror after he tried to kill them all

they survived the storm and were left adrift, waiting to die of thirst or starvation

then they almost got executed for mutiny

and now they’re back on the ship where it all started, with knives still embedded in the ceiling and Izzy’s blood still staining the deck.

but they’re alive, they’re together. They’re safe.

…and then Ed wakes up.

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I honestly cringed when i saw Merman Stede.

And then I realized… I wouldn’t show that reaction if it would have been a woman. So I decided to overcome this internalized homophobia 😌

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“Ed didn’t intend for Izzy to lose his leg”

*horrified side eye* TAPTAPTAP

No….. he just intended for him to die.

And he certainly intended to cut his toes off, you think he was sterilizing his instruments? Like there’s Stan behavior and then there’s making a whole new character up. As an Ed Enjoyer (and a Stede Enjoyer and an Izzy Enjoyer) he was so far out of line with everything we saw at the end of last season and the beginning of this one that had the crew succeeded in killing him… it would have been their right to do so. I don’t believe in taking the first shot, but if someone tries to kill you, you have a right to fight back, up to and including killing them back if it gets to that point.

And Ed was very much trying to kill them all. The fact that this was a byproduct of trying to kill himself doesn’t negate that. A murder-suicide is a murder-suicide, and that’s what he was going for. There were funny beats happening because it’s still a dramedy and comedy is an important half of that, so some things were framed in a funny manner, but what actually happened was all so desperately unfunny.

No one on that ship is or was an innocent, but that does not make it less horrible. Ed being almost completely untethered while remaining in a position of authority almost got them all killed. Izzy propped up that authority, and in doing so was almost the instrument of his own demise. Ed is probably not actually capable of maintaining a crew for very long without Izzy’s interference, and the crew of the Revenge would likely have turned on him or abandoned him long before were it not for Izzy’s management, so it’s fair to say that Izzy and Ed were locked in a death spiral until Izzy pulled out first.

And I think the main reason Izzy did break out of it is that he was simultaneously taking the brunt of Ed’s direct violence, while also receiving care from the crew. It was just enough for him to wake the fuck up. That early scene of Jim talking to him and Fang hugging him and Frenchie holding his hand was crucial because this type of connection was one he hadn’t had before, one he resisted, but one that ultimately saved his life and broke him out of the death spiral. He and Ed were a hateful Thelma and Louise about to drive over the cliff together, only the car is a bus full of other people. Izzy gave Ed the keys and put his hand on the shifter. He protected Ed’s power for too long. He’s not blameless. But he also pulled the emergency brake at the last possible second.

It’s complicated.

No one deserves the kind of torture Ed put Izzy and the crew through. Misery loves company and he was trying to drive them to put him out of his. “Judgement free zone” if he had chosen not to live after all, that’s ultimately his decision and his right, but he had no right to try and take people with him. Izzy was complicit in this, I just don’t think he fully realized how bad things could get until they got there. He thought he was comfortable with pain and misery until it got bad enough for him to accept comfort and that helped him stop. Still didn’t deserve it.

And it doesn’t really matter what else Ed did or did not intend or was or wasn’t cognizant of when he still very much tried to kill them all. That’s ultimately on him. Stede may blame himself for hurting Ed, and Izzy may blame himself for allowing the situation to deteriorate so much, and they both blame each other and themselves for “doing this to him” but the ultimate responsibility does and always will lie with Ed. He’s not actually a wild dog, he’s an adult person capable of making choices including bad ones.

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I am French and read then as a kid :D

no seriously, tell me where you're from and if you read asterix and obelix as a kid because I thought those comics were universal

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If a fella makes a nebula right in front of you, how are you not gonna pine after him for 6000 years?

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Legit that happened to me. Someone was telling me that the way I depicted language barriers between freaking different time periods was incorrect. I am a linguist with a degree in language, I studied phylology, and I used my personal experience with language barriers. I had said so on my notes. But no, sorry if my use of language barriers in a fanfiction was incorrect, anyway

Guys, gals, enbies, people who are posting on AO3 do not care about the things you don't like about their fics. Seriously, you don't need to tell us and, in fact, we're basically pleading with you to not tell us.

Don't like how it's being written? Click back.

Don't like one of the characters? Click back.

Have nothing positive to say? Click back.

Legit do not comment your negative shit because we do not care.

We're not writing for you, we're sharing it with you.

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Yeah, and also, back then it was how people of importance used to speak. Ex: the King of France (prior to decapitation, of course) would use "we" instead of "I", symbolizing that he WAS France, what a prick. Anyway, I am French.

Oh my gosh this is actually so cool though!! I didn’t know this!!

Fourth person uses plural first pronouns for the narrator/titular character(s)

An example might be instead of:

‘I sit in the chair by the window’ Or ‘Jon sits in the chair by the window’

‘We sit in the chair by the window’

Here’s an excerpt from The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides that uses 4th person:

“It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”

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Started as a study ended as something else.

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hey. don’t cry. crush two cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in pasta of your choice ok?

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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I am back with more kitty pictures, I put a flower on her hair and she looks purrfect.

#my kitty #kitty #cats and flowers #cute cats #picture

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Just a halloween doodles dump

#halloween #doodling #drawing #doodlings #monsters #inspired by the addams family #undead #pseudo scary #it really isn't though

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This is so freaking nice!

This flag was coined by me for the purposes of this blog, but is free to use by anyone! The meanings are as follows:

Teal: PCOS awareness

Yellow: Endometriosis awareness

Purple: Adenomyosis awareness

White: People of all genders

Circle: Adapted from the Intersex flag. Many people with PCOS choose to identify as Intersex.

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Y'all really should read this fic, my friend @arakhnee is a great writer like damn!

okay this is it, I’ve posted the first chapter of my dorlene enemies to lovers fic!! I’m so excited

it’s Thank You For The Venom by arakhnee on AO3!!

a few headcanons from my fic to make you want to read it:

- marlene is autistic

- lily falls for james first, but they’re basically both idiots and their mutual crush doesn’t lead anywhere (marylily and jegulus endgame!)

- pandora and barty are besties and they commit arson together

- mary is a radical feminist (edit: I meant that she’s very dedicated to it, not that she’s part of the self proclaimed radfems or even a TERF. Mary’s feminism includes all women, and that includes trans women and women of colour. howeverrr she is young and impressionable and she does tap a little into radical lesbian and radfem rhetoric for a while. but she will grow out of it and it will be discussed+addressed in the fic! especially when she realises that radfems do not care for her rights as a woman of colour)

- there will be a lot of feminist discourse from the 1970s (including pamphlets, marches and protests)

- there will be LOADS of tension and pining and hating from dorcas and marlene <3

- dorcas is basically a potion genius, and she’s also the only one snape is afraid of (and she totally takes advantage of it) (slytherin dorcas btw)

- marlene and dorcas are both chasers on their respective Quidditch teams so more tension <3

also it’s canon **non** compliant so everyone lives with a happy ending :))

#marauders #sapphic marauders #all the young dudes

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#lydia deetz #fanart #beetlejuice #beetlejuice the musical #i love it #halloween

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I was so bored that I just ended up doing that and like someone needs to take my computer away from me. If you want to repost or reblog just credit me :)

#steve harrington #stranger things #scoops ahoy #scoopsahoy #makeup #boys wearing makeup #i need heeeeelp #i am okay tho #steve harrington wearing makeup