#please please please p

[ullybug]

sorry ned i wanted a shutty for you :( mainly so that you'd have no excuse to be sad in media. please don't be sad in media. please

#pens lb #please please please p

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum

[stoopidstapler]

SO IVE BEEN GOIN INSANE SINCE THIS TRAILER DROPPED. JUST. SIMON. SIMON. SIMON.

#simon petrikov #fionna and cake #adventure time #goin insane over him #thers no words to describe how im feelin #i wish i could draw somehtin better but i am goin INSANE #FINALLY. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. we are being FED. #ALSO?? HOW THEY SHOWED HIM EXACTLY WHEN THE LYRICS GO ''WHATS WRONG WITH ME'. LIKE HELLO??????? #ive seen so many good theories PLEASE GOD WRITE FICS I AM BEGGIN I LL DRAW U FANART BLS HEL P #IDK WOT IM GONNA DO FOR A WHOLE MONTH #SOMEONE KNOCK ME OUT TIL THE 31ST. HIBERNATE ME. HELP. #also i need to put it out there the first thing i thought when i saw this trailer was simon is tryina rewrite fionna and cake #which is why their world keeps changin so much? idk idk #ive seen so many different ideas and they are all so good please help #ALSO GOD. THIS MAN IS JUST GOIN THRU IT. AND ITS ONLY BEEN A QUICK TRAILER. #im sorry for so many tags idk where to put these help #maybe i should make an actual blog for like. whatever. n reblogs. help.

[useless-sapphicc]

#mfjdjs #pretty please #wlw #sapphic #wlw yearning #wlw textpost #sapphic yearning #useless wlw #lesbian #wlw mood #wlw post #lesbian yearning #useless lesbian #useless sapphic #sapphic textpost #p l e a s e #wlw love #yearning

[nocek]

The power of magic baby :B

I'm enjoying doing the very loose sketchy linearts. It really helps with not falling into perfectionism buuuuuut it actually creeps back up with deciding to color XD It's unending battle.

But sometimes you need to lose it...

#mary jane watson #mj parker #peter b parker #mayday parker #miguel o'hara #spiderman #spiderman 2099 #spiderverse #atsv #with a guest appearance of #spider with a top hat (blast)! #also please appreciate my consistency! #on addendum to previous comic I said that from now on miguel is uncle kitty #he likes it (yes) or not (officially) #and no #that totally wasn't like 20% of why this comic happened ;P

[emotionaldisaster909]

Hey!

HEY!

Have you seen this?????

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS????

THESE ARE

SCREENSHOTS

FROM AN ADVERTISEMENT VIDEO

FOR NOODLES

The noodle brand is “Man Xiao Bao” by the way

WITH OFFICIAL DONGHUA DUB

HELLO??????????

SOURCE: WEIBO, TWITTER

#???????????!?!?&&$~~!|>{€|€\? #WHAT ARE THOSE NOODLES #WHAT WOULD WARRANT #T H I S #BUT ALSO #CAN THIS AD GIVE US ENOUGH SPONSORSHIP MONEY FOR SEASON 3 PLEASE #JKJKMJMJKHKHJHKJKJKKK #P L E A S E #tgcf #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #hong er #tian guan ci fu #tgcf donghua #heaven officials blessing #天官赐福 #tgcf official #tgcf official art #tgcf…. merch? #tgcf nOODLES #bkjJGCOHFOUFOUFPU #tgcf adds

[reddoll123]

Katara doodle~

#artists on tumblr #katara fanart #katara #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #digital fanart #my fanart #don't repost or edit btw #please and thank you #was gonna be a fully rendered in color piece but I was putting down the greys #and was like hm? I like this lemme just make it a doodle :P

[pandoraaucomic]

part 1 pg 91-97

First | Prev | Next

#please rb if you can <3 #p!au #pandora au #sonic #sonic au #sonic fancomic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #sonic underground #miles tails prower #uncle chuck #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #dr eggman #aleena the hedgehog #dora the destroyer #sonia the hedgehog #manic the hedgehog #team dark

[arrgh-whatever]

#im a bit rusty so that's all i can produce for now #scavengers reign #PLEASE WATCH IT P L E A S E #i like this nasty man #hope he'll never get a redemption arc. hope he'll become worse actually

[omaano]

It's his day to join the Hades AU! Happy Cody Day!!

""This weapon is your life" is what my general often said to lecture his old padawan during the war, and yet he constantly lost his. The lightsaber and his cloak... The things might be cursed. Not as much as yours, though." "Please keep that thing far away from my kid."

Rex from down the hall: "Stop trolling the shiny as a way to cope, Cody!"

Cody: "I have nothing to cope with, this is just for fun. The Darksaber is definitely cursed and you know it."

Rex: "Oh yeah, it definitely is. Sorry kid."

Din is still trying to figure out how he counts as a "shiny" here

Backgrounds, as per usual, are screenshots from my latest attempts at a run in the Hades game. All I can do is add more pocket characters, I'm not gonna redraw the whole set TT^TT (but look, Din is holding a handful of green and brown pixels now!)

#please insert the appropriate “that is the GAR's ass” joke here for me #tumblr where are my reds again??? #commander cody #cody day #coday #cody day 2224 #cc 2224 #hades au #star wars fanart #tcw fanart #my art #the clone wars #you're not following me for my ability to write good dialogue #so just appreciate what a fine figure cody cuts from this angle alright? #dunk that man in some soapy water his armor needs a good scrub #he has no murder on his conscience whatever might rex be alluding to? what does he know :P #when they don't have din to pick on cody is trying to coax rex into calling boba an “anklebiter” to his face #it's only a matter of days before he wears rex down #(rex is already game he just wants cody to bet something very good for it)

[heartorbit]

can i get a magical girl set please

#project sekai #pjsk #prsk #emu otori #proseka #otori emu #im just going to start drawing ever set i want ti beg for. i wahted phantom thief wxs but inlove what we gor bc mizukitheworld so im good #phantom of the opera is p close to that. the mask even... actually i steal set dieas from rev/star becaude come on. theyre kind of real. #we need swan lake set and nutcracker set and little prince and e #and i want them all to be wxs because i am a wretched little beast. PLEAK #the set with all 5 little pink guys slready went to a diner theme and its the cutest set ever. but. magical girls... #dream place minori the cutest csrd set forever definitely comes close but Still. can i get a mixed even magical girl set pretty pleade #can it go to the april fools sunny smile sentai. wheres my mafuemu mixed event. PLEASE #it was so funny to me i also tried to draw tsukaser but the . level of effort compared to how i drew emu is SO. SO FOUL. EVEN I FELT BAD.

[martyfive]

he’s just a little guy

#soapghost #ghostsoap #simon riley x john mactavish #john soap mactavish #cod #call of duty #no one’s dead everyone’s happy i’m still a bloody liar #btw i don’t really think s**p’s dead i’m in denial fight me #also please make me draw ghost wearing soap’s hoodie that’s too tight for him #this has to be done #johnny mactavish #soap cod

[westonsims00]

𝘋𝘢𝘺 22: 🌈⚧️💕 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘐𝘤𝘰𝘯: 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘢 𝘗. 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘉𝘏𝘔𝘊𝘈𝘚 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦

𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘢 𝘗. 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘+ 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴. 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 24, 1945, 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘+ 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 1969. 𝘈𝘴 𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰-𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 (𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘙) 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴. 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯'𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘+ 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯 1992 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦.

#westonsims00 #thesims4 #ts4 #mysims #showusyoursims #myscreenshots #simblr #bhmcas #trans representation #trans rights #marsha p johnson #lgbtq #tw death #please stop killing us #please stop with the anti-trans rhetoric #please stop denying us rights #please...just stop #human rights

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

dan, susan and carl are not real. they are featureless limbless cartoon balls in a video game. it’s really really okay. i promise.

#“who’s your husband. tell me.” like please calm down babygirl #“SHUT UP! EW” #he’s never beating the [insert anything here] allegations #losing the idgaf war every minute of everyday #dnp #dan and phil #and him threatening death both times #“i hope you zoom off a cliff.” #“oh no they crashed in a tragic balloon accident and they broke all of their bones.” #phan #dan howell #daniel howell #amazingphil #phil lester #yeet my deet #danisnotonfire #yeet my deenp #danandphilgames #the game of life #d&p #dapg

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

while I was looking for gabriels in the intro, I noticed this redheaded person w dark clothing and lighthaired person w light clothing that appear to kiss in the theatre:

i'm making this about the 1941 kiss theory

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edit oct 7: a few kind people have mentioned that they remember a post from the official good omens account (possibly on twitter) that said the two people kissing are War & Pollution, and the shadow beside them is Famine. (If you have the link please send it this way! I have done a fair bit of searching but with no luck and it's haunting me bc it must be real but i can't find it)

@0owhatsamsays also pointed out that in the X-Ray bonus video "Title Sequence Easter Eggs" Peter Anderson says there are specific characters from season 1 in the highlighted boxes, and as you can see, the kissing booth (top level, far right) is one with a little trail of stars coming off of it.

#oct 7: on the other hand *puts tinfoil hat back on* A&C were both in season 1 and maybe the W&P post is a mandela effect thing #if anyone has clearer zoomed in pics or has more info to add please enlighten me i missed all the intro analysis on here before s2 came out #good omens intro #1941 go #good omens #a nightingale sang in berkeley square #if i decide this is them then does this mean they kissed in every episode

[zorciarkrildrush]

I think the essence of what drives me crazy about current Enlightened Online Leftist Discourse Regarding My Life Personally And Whether This Time Killing Me Is Morally Correct (as in, commentary about the latest episode in i/p violence) is this:

I want a free Palestine.

I don't personally know a lot of people that don't! They might bristle at the tagline, because it's co-opted by people who do in fact want them dead, but as soon as I lay out why it's in literally everyone's best interest, how a non-free Palestine is horrific both to the people of Israel and to the people of Palestine, how pragmatically ridiculous the occupation of the west bank and the siege upon Gaza are (and I am a very pragmatic person), they get it. And I don't mean I debate people online about it - this, too, is a ridiculous concept - I mean having, time and time again, the deradicalization conversation with my friends, and colleagues, and my family. Obviously not only now - I've always been a very principled and argumentative Jew, ever since I became an adult - and I've been alive for, I don't know, a dozen flashpoints and operations and wars at this point, and I don't stop being argumentative and loud in peacetime either, but especially now.

But that's not what "from the river to the sea" means.

When you, gentle soul from across the sea, echo this slogan, you are either:

By apathy or will, ignoring that the sentiment cheers for the mass expulsion and killing of Jews. Indeed, any non-Muslim present from the river to the sea. This doesn't even begin to cover how even Muslim arabs still will not be safe under Hamas rule - and trust me, I don't care if a Hamas apologist told you different. A victory for Hamas (And we're ignoring the fact they do not have the military capacity for it - I hope you are aware of the privilege inherent to not understanding military conflicts) means exactly that. No "rule by the people". No socialistic, Palestinian utopia to be had, which is a fantasy I'm seeing alluded to a lot recently. Just an extension of the horrific power structure in Lebanon and Syria, where Hezbollah - friends and allies to Hamas - have been playing a tango for decades of both refusing to participate in actual government and betterment of civilian lives, while still draining their resources and controlling them with no real contest. "From the river to the sea" is not a sentiment for freedom fighting - it's a sentiment for a final solution to the people living here who are either Jewish, or for some Very Strange And Weird Reason would rather not submit to Hamas rule. You know - Israeli Arabs, secular and Muslim and Christian, Druze, Circassians, Bahai, take your pick. Their suffering, and my suffering - you know, a person who made the strategic error of being born in Israel while Jewish, which is inherently problematic and not okay of me - don't matter to you. Just the fantasy of an easy, morally correct cleanse of the land.

Are well aware of all of the above! You just don't care. You either smugly chuckle that I, and anybody else who will die, deserve it - or that it's an acceptable loss for the aforementioned fantasy. "Decolonization is an inherently violent process", you'll say to me, chillingly, before implying I have a summer home in Brooklyn I can just retreat to when things get tough. Israel is basically Rhodesia, a very popular blog here mentioned flippantly, so what's the issue with all of those lily-white Jews fucking off back home before the righteous freedom fighters strike them down? Well. This might be the part I urge you to open a book, or even Wikipedia or any god damn thing that will explain to you these upsetting, dense things you clearly struggle with.

So finally:

It's easy for me to discount islamophobes. Like, very easy. It's very easy for me to discount insane evangelistics who "advocate for me" simply because I'm a pawn in their religious rapture. It's easy for me to fight against Israeli and Jewish fascists - I have been long before this news item came across your feed, as did the insinuations that some civilian deaths are okay, actually.

It's easy for me for me to see promotions for donations to non-political aid in Gaza. It's easy for me to see the sentiment that hey! Palestinians deserve safe, healthy lives. That they have deserved an independent state, and were unfairly denied one, for decades. It's easy for me to see people saying "You know, the Israeli government is shit, actually, and their actions endanger and promote to the misery of innocents". Because that's right! I wouldn't be voting and protesting and donating for all of these sentiments otherwise!

It's not easy for me to see people, who I honestly held in high regard and saw having well thought out opinions on important matters, inadvertently echo the sentiment that my death is acceptable. That a terrorist organization, who rule over their own territory with fear and violence, are righteous freedom fighters, vox populi, only out to establish a free state. Like hey, their manifesto said otherwise, so it must be all there is - right? That Jews are just hysterical, they can easily live elsewhere - ever since that nasty holocaust business everything's fine abroad. Besides, it was just so long ago who even cares stop talking about it. Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, the Ayatollahs in Iran, the fucking Islamic Jihad - are not interested in freedom. They aren't, and echoing their slogan tells me you are either ignoring that, or support them anyway. If antisemitic rhetoric, half truths and lies by omission work on you today, they would have in any period of time. I'm sorry this makes you uncomfortable. I'm not, not really.

Know what your fucking words mean. Have a cursory glance at the history of the MENA and why it's so fucked, one that doesn't boil down to "The Jews, with American help, rolled into where they don't belong". This isn't even a joke. I've seen this braindead, history-revising sentiment repeated so many times, both online and in actual textbooks, that I feel I'm going insane. So many well-meaning people handwringing and assuring each other that repeating genocidal slogans is fine, that calling the i/p conflict "a simple problem" (which means it has a simple solution, right? Just kill the Jews.) is a well-adjusted and intellectual take. That "only the Zionists should die! The rest will be fine :)" I dare you to say that and also give me a correct definition of what Zionism is. Why I, a Jew that advocates for Palestinian statehood and rights and safety and always have, won't also face the wall in your little fantasy.

Freedom to Palestine. Peace in the middle east, fucking yesterday.

A curse and a plague on those who don't want either of those, and just want to cheer on the death of "the other side".

A curse and a plague upon you, when you tell me, smugly, from somewhere safe and far away, "from the river to the sea".

#selfpost #long post #i/p #israel #palestine #antisemitism #antizionism #I pondered linking every word of every claim I make to sources like Reuters and Wikipedia and what have you #but honestly? Please just read them #don't get your news off fucking Twitter #my respect for “critical thinking” online leftists is already at an all time low