I know this is asking people to like, have basic empathy and therefore asking way too much, but I'd just really love if before you [general] comment anything on the current Israel/Palestine situation, you considered how you would react if the roles were reversed.
If, for example, Israeli extremists raped and butchered their way through Gaza (or the West Bank) killing 1200 Palestinian men, women, and children who had been peacefully hanging out observing a religious holiday or sleeping, and especially if they had caught the whole damn thing on film and broadcasted it and celebrated it as if this was some huge win for Jews instead of the biggest chillul Hashem possible - just think about how people would have reacted. And what if they hadn't? What if the entire Western left, up to and including the United fucking Nations had denied the sexual violence and torture? Y'all would be pretty rightfully livid, no?
And let's be honest about how the global Jewish community would react if 23,000 Jews were killed for literally any reason whatsoever. Even if they were all adult male soldiers in active combat, never mind if they were non-combatants or children? We'd shit bricks. It would not feel neutral or not targeted, no matter how objectively true that might be. As it is, every Jew I know is one degree or less of separation from someone directly affected by the October 7th attacks and that's a with a maximum of 1500 casualties and hostages involved. Can you imagine if it were 23,000? We would all be sitting shiva, with no one to answer amen during Kaddish. The reality is that killing a large amount of people from a small minority that has been persecuted throughout its history cannot be a neutral act.
Anyway please I'm begging people to reverse the roles for four seconds to re-humanize the people on the "other" side. Because the truth is that there is no "other side" - there's just the everyday people who want to live in safety, dignity, freedom and justice with their families and friends. And then there's the small minority of very powerful groups and individuals who actively benefit from the conflict continuing. And the faster that those of us who aren't Israeli or Palestinian realize this, the sooner we will be able to effectively support the people on the ground seeking lasting solutions that benefit the majority of the population.
i’m very desperate for dhmis content so i made some up myself for a potential season 2….. which one would you guys like to see most? (this is real ok poe jelling told me)
NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. IVE HAD ENOUGH. bryce would NOT do this!!!! bryce would hate you for even INSINUATING she’d do this!!!!!!! elain is juniper equivalent, bryce is BEST FRIENDS with juniper. therefore she’d ADORE ELAIN
sorry i’m fucking fuming sometimes this fandom drives me fucking nuts i cant stand it
all this for fucking bat boy no.3. god
& out of fucking spite i’ve decided every time i see one of these takes i’m making an elain & bryce bffs headcanon 💞
no.1: bryce teaches elain new recipes from lunathion
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again… I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die...”
Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
John 11: 23-26, 43-44
Today on Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, His returning to the world that made death die. In Armenian we say Քրիստոս հարեավ ի մերելոց - Christ has arisen. But on this particularly special Easter, we celebrate also the presence of trans people in our lives and in this world.
The two quotes above are from Christ’s resurrection of Lazarus - He identifies himself to Lazarus’s sister Martha as the resurrection and the life, the source of her brother’s salvation, and tells her that anyone who believes in Him will never die. When He raises Lazarus from the tomb, He calls him to come out of his place of deathly imprisonment, and calls on his peers to take the bindings of the shroud off of him so that he may be free.
For the trans people in the audience, this may be a familiar narrative. I am far from the first person to identify the Lazarus narrative with a coming out story, and I pray I won’t be the last.
But I want to call some attention to a parallel with the scene of the resurrection being discovered later in John’s gospel:
Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.
John 21: 6-7
When Jesus Himself is resurrected, the first sign of this that the apostles have is the presence of His graveclothes in the grave without a body in them. As He commanded for Lazarus, He did for Himself. If we imagine Lazarus’s narrative as a transgender one, I think that this is the day for us to imagine Christ’s resurrection as a transgender narrative as well. He is the resurrection and the life, we are made in His image, and His resurrection is echoed every time a trans person chooses to live their own life in their own either authentic vision.
And, if you’re cis and wondering how to be more Christlike on this Trans Easter - Remember what He said to Lazarus’ compatriots: “Loose him, and let him go.” Encourage your compatriots to loose the bonds holding people back from living their truest life. Do the work yourself, as well, and bring the Kingdom on Earth that much closer.
To whoever the FLIP is targeting me on tumblr AND in disc, please for the love of stars at least tell me WHY ME?
The fuck did I do wrong to legit provoke to send shit that can be triggering, is disgusting, and literally downright illegal.