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jloisse · 1 month

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🔴New Zealanders put on a powerful display by doing the Haka in solidarity with Palestine

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violottie · 2 months

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This is so beautiful. Such unshakable faith can never be destroyed.

A stunning act of faith, resilience, solidarity, and humanity. As Palestinians perform Friday prayers near the ruins of a mosque destroyed in Israeli strikes, in #Rafah in the southern #Gaza Strip. March 1, 2024." from Dr Jennifer Cassidy

#muslim #islam #palestinian faith #palestinian resistance #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #faith #palestine will be free #palestine will never die #palestinian lives matter

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everything-anything3345 · 2 years

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Anyone not wanting to abide by the US Constitution is welcomed to leave America. Period.

#us constitution #love it #live free or die standing

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feluka · 1 month

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#often it hits me that i will never ever see an egypt that is free from military dictatorship #it has been under military rule from my grandparents' time and i have to assume it will remain under military rule long after i die #i just want to know how it feels to not live in a military state #disgusts me to the core. i can't stand our rulers.#likewise for jordan my heart aches for jordanians #i can't wait for all of us to be free i can't wait to see a free swana people all of us together starting with palestine please #i know we will be beautiful without the sword hanging over our necks

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cavalierzee · 3 months

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Palestine Belongs To The Palestinians

“Palestine was hardly Britain’s to give away”…

~ President John F Kennedy

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designernishiki · 1 year

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The Kiwami Millennium Tower showdown definitely ended with Kiryu being shaken awake by Haruka, who frantically pulls him over to Nishiki, half-buried in rubble and in a pool of his own blood, and Kiryu carrying a badly injured Nishiki out of the building to safety and still holding him close and not letting go when Nishiki regains consciousness in his arms and starts to weakly struggle against his grip, gives up, and breaks down sobbing, clutching Kiryu’s shirt and pleading to him–

“Please don’t do this– please don’t force me to live with this– just end it. I don’t deserve to live, I don’t want your mercy or your pity– it wasn’t supposed to go like this. I failed– I fail at everything– I even failed at ending my own life. I’ve hurt and betrayed everyone I’ve ever cared about and been a burden on everyone I’ve ever known. I’ll never be enough. Why the hell are you trying to save me? What the hell is there to save? Let me do one useful thing for once in my life and leave me to bleed out like I should. Please, Kazuma.”

And with teary eyes squeezed shut, his head down, Kiryu holds him so tightly to his chest it makes Nishiki’s burns sting and tells him,

“Everyone hurt you, and I left you to hurt alone. I broke our promise. I should’ve never left you to cross the line alone. I was supposed to be there for you, and I wasn’t– but I’m here now and I’m not letting you go. Never again. I need you here. I want you here. Just being here is enough, Akira. I promise.”

And Nishiki gives into his instinctive need to just cling to him and cry, as if making up for years of pent-up tears he’s forced himself not to shed out of an intense fear of vulnerability. He does what he should’ve done a long time ago, fakes his death, and leaves the yakuza life behind in favor of something more mundane, but something that’s actually him– something that allows him to accept himself as he is rather than being forced to live up to the impossible standards of others.

Trust me this is absolutely how it went. The End.

#didnt mean for this to be like. a miniature fic but. oops #also feel free to take this as platonic or romantic its really not important the point still stands #nishiki #kiryu #akira nishikiyama #kazuma kiryu #nishikiryu #yakuza kiwami #yakuza kiwami spoilers #cw suicidal ideation #i just. i want them to make up. and i want nishiki to break down crying. and i want him to be told hes enough. gaghghfgdhghh #long post #like legit tho. narratively speaking. i think just blowing up nishiki and having that be the end of it is... so much missed potential and #definitely not the most satisfying and emotionally engaging way of going about nishiki's overall story #something about suicidal characters being put up against horrible odds and struggling and in the end just being left to die without #anyone ever truly getting through to them that they are enough and deserve to exist and etc– at least enough to back away from the #ledge so to speak. idk. i just. dont like it #no one wants to see a character suffer like that for so long while being shown Clearly the causes of their self loathing and what Made them #fall as far as they have into self destruction- thus knowing they truly WANT to live. they just dont believe being happy or feeling content #is ever possible for them based on what they've been told and what they've gone through. and then watch them successfully kill themselves i #in an act of volatility and hostility essentially affirming that they'll forever be remembered for being malicious and as horrible as #they believe themselves to be and etc etc etc #sorry im rambling here #but #it just. i dont know man i just dont like it. and like i said its just. theres so much wasted potential for character growth and a more #well-rounded story overall....... sigh

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aldoodles · 2 years

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have some super sketchy and pixelly lighting studies because I literally cannot stop thinking about these three or the year they were separated during the war

#httyd #httyd books #book!hiccup #book!fishlegs #camicazi #GOSH OKAY JUST THE SUDDEN ‘it’s been a whole YEAR ‘ thing at the beginning of book ten #and then you’re hit w the gut punches of hiccup on his own hunted by literally everyone. fishlegs trapped in slavery??? camicazi has #frantically turned to searching for fishlegs and liberating slaves even though she thinks he’s dead #and she thinks she was too late for him #like they all feel SO. GUILTY. and they’re alone #hiccup for the whole ‘setting furious free’ thing and fishlegs for not leaving with his best friend and camicazi for not standing up with #the other two when it really mattered #and they all just have to like. live with it.#separated from the only people who understand them #as the world burns to cinders around them and hundreds die #also emo abt hiccup soeaking dragonese instead of Norse bc he’s only been by dragons and I’m emo about the fact that when he speaks Norse #again it’s in a voice that puberty has hit like a trUCK during his exile #ANYWAYS #also lol at the way I sketched eggingarde’s hands lol #no effort was given #super sketchy sketchy #al chatters #doodles #my art

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sotogalmo · 3 months

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I should make a post about Palestine. I've been having thoughts, and.. I really want to share. Because its just not fair. It's not fair at all.

Adults

Teens

Children

Toddlers

Babies

Infants

They are all dying. They are all being killed, murdered, raped, and everything that is evil.

And it's not fair.

It's not fair that I, get to live a life. While they don't. It's not fair that I get to live, and they are tossed aside like trash(they are not).

It's not fair that I get help, while they have to suffer and get nothing.

It's not fair at all.

I thought history was taught to us, as a way of like "now! Let's not make the same mistake again!"

But here we are.

It's the same as the Holocaust.

It's Genocide.

And it's not right. You all should know that

Yesterday, I was just thinking of the small things I had in life. Seeing a mother and her healthy children, thinking of my healthy friends, thinking of my healthy family, thinking of how I'm still learning and learning, thinking of how I can act like a kid, thinking of.. everything that I have.

Fresh food, warm beds, healthy family, healthy friends, new clothes, and everything so small.

I have it all.

Palestine Children don't.

They have to grow against their will. They have to put on a face against their will. They have to hide their hunger from their parents, they have deal with all of the pain and suffering.

I don't.

And that's just not fair.

I don't like it.

I don't like how I used to want Joe as a president. He's not one. He's not even human. “Gaza infants may not be innocent”, oh fuck off. They are innocent. They are INFANTS. Fucking BABIES.

I might not be good with babies, and I might not like them. But they are innocent. They have been, will be, and are innocent.

The fact that we are funding a genocide, with our own tax money..

I hate it.

But then my head goes to places (like, lets commit tax evasion! Let's do suicide! If they don't see how it's affecting people, their people, us, then we might as well just die!)

And I just know that we can't do those(well maybe, if some of you aren't afraid of going to jail/etc, if they do find out).

And so the best we can all do is just Boycott.

We can just protest. We can donate. We can boycott.

Do everything in your power to save & free Gaza, save & free Palestine.🇵🇸

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #ive been thinking too much #but i had to say this #ive been reblogging without saying my own thoughts #sorry for the suicide one. its been on my mind for so long #palestine 🇵🇸#i stand with palestine #the kids didnt even have time to live. and i do. what the fuck does that mean?#why do i get to live while they are forced to die? forced to be killed murdered raped executed and everything?#why am i here? palestines & gazas should be more alive then any of us. they deserve to live. they have the fucking right to live #i might feel numb & i might be getting used to this. but that doesn't fucking excuse what is happening #it doesn't mean that i cant feel. it doesn't mean that i dont want to help #i want to help. and the only way i can to help is to spread the word & boycott the best i can #please. do everything in your power to save & free Palestine. do everything in your power to save & free Gasa #*Gaza #they deserve to live

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96percentdone · 6 months

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actually like for real is "morally grey" just being used as a stand-in term for 'character who is well written and interesting and nuanced' as opposed to like a character whose morals and actions are too messy to be classified as either black or white? because if that's true i hate it here. like i really do.

there have been 10000 posts about how people can't be normal about fictional women, and that's true. often you see fictional girls talked about like they're the devil for like being mildly sassy at the fan favorite the one time, but truly like evil or actually morally grey women get fuckin morally whitewashed by so many of their fans like they also can't bear the idea she might suck shit.

that's not like a strictly fictional woman phenomenon, evil/morally grey men get this shit all the time, because i think on some level people can't like. cope with the idea their faves suck. i feel like a lot of people want to feel like the characters they like are good because they fear its a reflection of their own morals if they're not. and it's not. the things you like in fiction are not an indicator of your morality; they just are things you like in fiction.

but that said i find the phenomenon more interesting when it comes to ethically dubious/bankrupt women because truly for a website constantly screaming about how they want well written women in villainous roles, you guys do not know what to do with them at all even when you like them! When you are given the thing you've been clamoring for forever, you either want her to die or you're scrambling desperately to make her less what she is, and in the process desecrating the things that made her interesting and unique. often it just ends up dovetailing back into classic misogyny where if she's not perfect and pure then she's not worth it, but i just kinda don't think fictional women have to be 'good' or even 'not evil' to be worthy of attention, praise, and adoration.

#hope.txt #ik i said i would kill shigure tokiko myself in the tags of my last post #but to be completely clear #i think shigure tokiko is extremely compelling and she lives rent free in my brain #i just also can't stand her and spend every minute of her time on screen yelling 'shut up!'#really she belongs in her own category of 'favorite characters that i hate'#it makes sense i promise #i will sooner die before saying i like shigure tokiko because its not true #i have to stop myself from skipping her dialogue my beef with her ideology is that strong #but she is extremely fascinating and fun to ruminate on #she's fun to use in creative contexts!#she's a very well crafted character and i love well crafted characters but if shigure was a real person i'd get a murder charge #you understand

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crazyw3irdo · 6 months

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Trink or treat :3

Can i ask for a deer in headlights?

deer in headlights has gotta be in like, the top 20 coolest symbolisms/metaphors/iconography/whatever to invoke in art

#crazwaz posted #audience participation #crazy's art #it’s just like. there’s so much about it yknow #a machine you’ve never seen before and could easily kill you appears #it’s entrancing #are you drawn to it? terrified? it’s blinding you but you can’t stop staring #it could kill you. it almost did. maybe it will. but you can’t move. it’s still. and so are you. waiting for each other to make the first #move. your heart thuds in your chest and you wish it was instead the thudding of your hooves running away but you are stock still #you see no eyes no teeth no claws. what does this beast desire? it did not pounce when it had the chance. perhaps it is satiated #but perhaps it is hungry. you don’t know. you can’t know. it’s unfathomable. no living thing looks like this #is it even living? it moves. it growls. it lies in wait for you. whether it is alive or no it doesn’t matter. it can kill you.#why can’t you move? do you even want to move? have you accepted your fate? do you know it could catch you?#you know it’s swift. you are too. but you know you can’t outrun it. do you wish to die without becoming exhausted?#is it an honor to die knowing you avoided doing something you never could achieve? or is it an honor to have at least tried?#does it want to kill you? it’s had it’s time now. any lesser predator would have torn you to shreds by now and yet it still lies in wait.#do you want for it to kill you? no. that can’t be it. but then why are you still here? staring?#are you entranced by some unworldly thing- by the beast’s power- or by your own free will?#it stands still and so do you. why does it? you are afraid- or you have accepted- or something else yet- but what of it?#is it afraid of you?#….anyway my fursona is a deer so i nearly drew them in headlights as a goof but decided against it :3

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nutklcker · 2 months

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@koukaaa-descent they are so special to me

also im sorry if the picture shows up as gigantic im posting this from my art laptop and idk how to make it smaller teehee

#host #art #not my ocs #not my oc #i would die for these two #they have such tragic lives i have to draw them having goodd moments #like Indigo helping young Monsoon learn to walk/run/stand etc #which is waht this is #oug theyre so special to me #they live in my head rent free

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jloisse · 1 month

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How to steal a land: From 1937 to 2000.

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violottie · 2 months

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"It might be hard to believe that this video was taken today after 155 days of genocide and war and continuous death and bombing even though Gaza still astonishes me because every single day I walk to a new place I find places that are full of beauty and life, its like the land itself is resisting to be killed to be demolished and to be wiped from the planet earth, long live Palestine and for God’s sake ceasefirenow🇵🇸"

from Hossam Wail, 16/Mar/2024:

#palestine will be free #palestine will never die #i stand with palestine #i believe in palestine #hopepunk #hope punk #palestine #free palestine #long live palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #rafah #save rafah #nature #indigenous land

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artinandwritin · 26 days

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Some initial design choices for the Forrad brothers cuz I've been focussing more on the Myriad Tribe and the assassin squad as I'm planning to try and write Niv's story (finally. After 4 years)

Some information about them under the cut!

Bendik Forrad is the older of the two brothers and is Niv's adoptive father. He found the boy in a burning ship as a newborn, with his parents no-where to be found. He had assumed they had perished in the fire and sunken to the bottom of the ocean, so he had decided to take the infant under his own wing to raise to become a successful member of the Myriad Tribe.

Bendik is a very strict parent (if you can even call him a parent) and due to a fear of bonding with others, not very emotionally available. He lost an older sibling bc of the assassin training program as a child and still has a lot of issues left over from it, resulting in the way he is as an adult. Still, he's regarded as a highly successful individual, being a part of the council and often being told he should challenge the current chief to become chief himself. It is quite unknown if he's actually gonna do this

He, his little brother Ludvig, and Niv all live together in the same hut and due to this forced proximity, he and Ludvig are closer than expected. Bendik still feels some sort of responsibility to his brother, certainly after Ludvig's difficulty entering adulthood

Ludvig Forrad, in return, is quite the bitter person. He failed his first assassin job as a teen and the guilt and shame that has brought him, hasn't faded yet. His whole life, he had been praised and had been told he'd become the greatest of his generation, but after his failure, all society would talk about, was his one mistake.

He's not exactly a loving uncle to Niv, being rather suspicious of this rascal of a boy and very distrusting of his capabilities. Ludvig believes Niv doesn't fit into the Myriad Tribe, but Bendik would kill him if he ever told him that. Still, Niv reminds him of the past that keeps haunting him over and over again - something in those eyes and in that way of speaking triggers him time and time again, causing in Ludvig often taking his anger out on the boy and leaving Niv terrified of what the man is capable of

Ludvig is, in fact, one of the most skilled assassins of the Myriad Tribe, but is never taken seriously bc of his past failures (he's very angy about that)

#the thing with these two brothers is #theyre not even villains #theyre antagonists #standing between niv and his goals #which is what's so interesting about them #it's only after niv gets free that they actively become villains (well. ludvig was one in his teens but that isn't exactly relevant here)#bendik in particular doesn't know if he loves his adoptive son or not #seeing as he's not exactly allowing himself to love or get attached bc they can die from the myriad tribe's extreme way of living #man's emotionally repressed af and meanwhile ludvig only feels rage towards a past he cannot change #and with niv being in the picture... it's a miracle he hasn't succumbed yet if these are his only parental figures #poor baby boi #i really enjoy thinking about this dynamic and the way the forrad brothers have been shaped by their society #it gives them such a deep sense of character #theyre victims in their own rights but make niv a victim too bc of the same reasons #anyways #im excited to finally be developing this in full #httyd #how to train your dragon #oc #artinandwritin's art #bendik forrad #ludvig forrad

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ember-knights · 7 months

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Hamas: b-but .. but you said I was special 😭 and you only want to kill meee 💔💔

Lay a resistance group down easy, fella. Send at least a break up text first before you start broadcasting nationwide. Jeez..

#and even with their blatant racism and admitence people are still gonna be defending this genocide #not that we needed him to say it but slay king thank for forgetting your script at home before going live #i Hope you are first to die anonymous IDF soldier #hamas #Palestine #free Palestine #Gaza #Gaza under attack #i stand with Palestine #fuck Israel #fuck the USA

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pikslasrce · 10 months

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i hope all cooling fans blow up and die

#i would rather die of a heatstroke than have a gust of cold air constantly going at me #its on in the livong room rn and i dont want to go to my room and there is no corner in the living room that isnt free of the air flow #and i want to cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy #this is not normal this isnt meant to make me feel so upset 😭😭😭😭#oh thank fuck they turned it off... post still stands #piksla.txt

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