The great parlors of my heart,
full of shadows of the past.
It's sufficiently spacious for all
those heartless phantoms and
demons who wander and
merge into deep, deep darkness.
@rottingveil / Amaranth
Book: Aurora On The Obscure Path, Ch.4; Beyond The Fury
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Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Top Gun (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell & Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Robert "Bob" Floyd & Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Reuben "Payback" Fitch & Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, Javy "Coyote" Machado & Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Bernie "Hondo" Coleman & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell & Everyone, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Ron "Slider" Kerner & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Ron "Slider" Kerner & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
Characters: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Robert "Bob" Floyd, Reuben "Payback" Fitch, Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, Javy "Coyote" Machado, Bernie "Hondo" Coleman, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Ron "Slider" Kerner
Additional Tags: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a Little Shit, Kid!Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, deaging, Protective Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Crack, Past Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Needs A Hug, Protective Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Protective Ron "Slider" Kerner, The Dagger Squad, no beta we die like goose, Maverick and his gaggle of dagger ducklings, ducklings that are of course ready and willing to throw down for their old man
Summary:
For the few weeks they’ve known him, it’s clear that Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell is a force of nature that does not tire and does not rest. That is the fact they have carved into their bones from the instant he started flying through the air as though the sky itself were his home, and made all the more true when he brought them back alive against all odds.
Maverick moves mountains. Maverick parts the sea. Maverick is the sun they turn their faces to when “don’t think, just do” races through their heads. It’s that simple.
It just is.
So it’s really fucking weird when Hondo opens their classroom door with Cyclone and Warlock dogging his step, and a kid that Bradley knows straight from his dad’s old photo album, walks in like life had handed them all the most interesting, unneeded batch of lemons they didn’t ask for.
The kid steps forward in overly large clothes with a familiar confidence and surety in his step that they’ve spent so long following.
He clears his throat. “This may be a lot to take in but it’s really me, I’m Maverick-- and no, don’t ask how this happened ‘cause I have no fucking idea.”
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 72)
The rhetoric from Israel and their defenders really hasn't changed one bit, has it? Months and months of terrorizing Palestinian villages, and the moment they retaliate, it must be because the Arabs are violent Nazis set to exterminate the oh-so-peaceful Zionist settlers for no other reason than them being Jewish
And what were the Zionists settlers - with Ben-Gurion's explicit approval - doing at the time?
Pappé (2006, p. 58)
Similarly, in the villages:
Pappé (2006, p. 57)
Still the same playbook, 75+ years later...
Also, it's important to understand that these violent attacks against Palestinian cities and villages - and there were many more in the winter of 47/48 than the examples included here - were part of a larger, deliberate operation meant to 'drive out' (i.e. ethnically cleanse) the Native population of Palestine. It didn't matter if the Palestinians were just quietly living their life in the countryside; if they were not Jewish, they would had to go. And if the Zionists could not find a pretext for retaliation, they would make one.
In the aftermath of the UN partition, this operation of ethnic cleansing - without 'pretext' - was not only openly discussed, but approved of, by Ben-Gurion and the rest of the Zionist leadership:
Pappé (2006, p. 64)
What we're seeing today in Gaza - with the collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians - is the continuation of this very same Zionist program of ethnic cleansing that Israel was founded on.
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She might seem rough as every edge of thundercloud,
but ripple of her light is smooth and so mellow.
@amaranth-devi1
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