[qourmet]

no one pay attention to the fact that we're in mid february

HAPPY NEW YEARS!! ! ! i have been Liberated

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Palestine Masterlist 

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

Palestine 101

Rainbow washing 

Frequently asked questions 

Myths 

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 

The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 

The Gaza Strip

The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba)

Al-Nakba (documentary)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)

Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article)

Donations and charities: 

Al-Shabaka

Electronic Intifada 

Adalah Justice Project 

IMEU Fundraiser 

Medical Aid for Palestinians 

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 

Addameer

Muslim Aid

Palestine Red Crescent

Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948

Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom

Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre

The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians

The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

Ten myths about Israel

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Palestinian Culture:

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Palestinian Costume

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution

Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)

Falastin: A Cookbook

Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen

Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions

Palestinian Culture before the Nakba

Tatreez & Tea (Website)

The Traditional Clothing of Palestine

The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity

Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing

Palestine Traditional Costumes

Palestine Family 

Palestinian Costume

Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia

Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

Jenin, Jenin

Born in Gaza

GAZA 

Wedding in Galilee 

Omar

5 Broken Cameras

OBAIDA

Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)

Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

AL NAKBA

Gaza Lives On

Gaza we are coming

Lost cities of Palestine 

Stories from the Intifada 

Last Shepherds of the Valley

Voices from Gaza

Muhammad Smiry

Najla Shawa

Nour Naim

Wael Al dahdouh

Motaz Azaiza

Ghassan Abu Sitta

Refaat Alareer

Plestia Alaqad

Bisan Owda

Ebrahem Ateef

Mohammed Zaanoun

Doaa Mohammad

Hind Khoudary

Palestinian Voices, Organizations, and News 

Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)

Defense for Children in Palestine

Palestine Legal 

Palestine Action

Palestine Action US

United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

Times of Gaza

Middle East Eye

Middle East Monitor

Mohammed El-Kurd

Muna El-Kurd 

Electronic Intifada 

Dr. Yara Hawari (suspended on X 10/25/2023)

Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

Noura Erakat

The Palestinian Museum N.G.

Palestine Museum US

Artists for Palestine UK 

Eye on Palestine (suspended on Instagram 10/25/2023)

[layzeal]

i know teen wei ying would eat a mango like a feral beast in need to be put down

[wei--wuxian]

[miyakuli]

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Part 1

Artist :  仙都怪谈 (weibo / twitter)

Source

[meyaoyu]

“If he catches me, I’ll…”

[cqlfeels]

One underrated aspect of MDZS is that usually when you have a love story where one of the lovers die, the lover who is alive is responsible for the dead person to come back to life. Think of princesses whose tears are life-giving, or princes who deliver the true love's kiss, or quests to the underworld seeking one's beloved. MDZS, though? LWJ is all but irrelevant when it comes to WWX's resurrection. So much so that even CQL, which plays up all romance tropes they possibly can, keeps that irrelevance

[cqlfeels]

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, broadly speaking, MDZS is full of people whose "I love you" to someone is answered by the world and fate with "So what?" Love doesn't conquer all in this story, in fact love usually fixes nothing at best and hurts you at worst, no matter what kind of love it is. I don't have any conclusions I can immediately draw from this but I'll be Thinking about it in the foreseeable future and hopefully come to some conclusion because I feel like I'm missing something major here but I don't really know what

[cqlfeels]

I can see this got a lot of notes and I'm really looking forward to reading the discussions but I'm trying not to right now because I feel like I have a thought juuuuust out of reach inside my brain and I want to get to it without external influences. But thanks for playing the overthinking game with me, you're all awesome!

[cqlfeels]

Got it. The thought that was just out of my reach, I mean, not the only possible conclusion, of course. (Do check the notes, there are some awesome thoughts in there!)

In a well-written love story, of course love has to play an important role. It has to do something, it can't be just an afterthought. And I can point to many ways in which love is either useless or destructive in MDZS, but it felt like an oversimplification to stop there. Yes, love, like everything else, is tangled up in the worst aspects of the world the characters live in. But to say there's nothing uniquely good about love in this world feels disingenuous? I never get that sense, I do get the sense that people are right in loving, even if the results of that love can be disastrous sometimes. And then it hit me.

Love remembers.

That's basically it. In a story where truth and lies are so central, love is about remembering. Grievances lead to grudges, thankfulness leads to debts - I'm sorry and thank you, right? Love leads to memories. You remember because you care, because you're paying attention enough to notice things in the first place. It's really that simple.

The sheer amount of mementos in this story should've clued me in tbh, but if it hadn't - I only had to think of how the story begins and ends. The antidote to narratives being spun about you is to have even a single person who will look at you, and see you, and remember you.

LWJ might be powerless to stop WWX's downward spiral, or to bring him back to life, but. He remembers his favorite wine and his sense of humor. He remembers him throwing flowers and playing with a child. On his body, LWJ has scars so he will never forget him. Oh, and he recognizes WWX because even in a new life, he still remembers their song.

[keitaiirenwa]

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

[coughloop]

Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey

[useless-englandfacts]

a lot of people (esp. americans) make fun of british cuisine and most of the time it’s fair, but a lot of the time the food they’re making fun of is poverty food or working-class food… so really the joke’s on them because our terrible terrible peasant food is gonna come in real handy with the current cost of living crisis!!!

[crazybooksandplantslady]

Poverty didn’t force you to name your food “spotted dick”

[useless-englandfacts]

[cadaverkeys]

why does god give his juiciest of tits to his most transmasculine soldiers.

[faggotsaint]

babygirl to me is a mens only term, can you imagine calling a girl babygirl that’s so cringe

[justpastryvideos]

x

[irregodless]

[fireache]

[fancymancer]

Happy 20th Anniversary to Fullmetal Alchemist.

[triviallytrue]

every day star wars fans come on this site and say some version of "star wars would be so good if it was good"

[huffylemon]

[c3rvida3]

Oh, excuse me... I have a missed call from my beautiful wife, Spam Risk.