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Hey! Can you please explain what's happening in Israel and Palestine? Thank you!

Okay so Palestine is a country in the middle East which has been inhabitated by Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians for generations. In 1948, Zionists forced about half of the indigenous population out of their homes in "The Catastrophe" to establish Israel. They've been forcing people out of their homes and killing people, even children during the holy month of Ramadan, a very important time for Muslims, they attacked the Al-Aqsa masjid, where people were just praying, shot bullets and tear gas at them. They're forcing people out of their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and they're bombing Gaza, where 21 have been killed, out of which 10 we're children. This is no longer a political issue, this is a humanitarian issue, human rights are being violated, this is ethnic cleansing. It's not about religion, it's about land, colonialism and apartheid. Palestine has Jews, Muslims and Christians. Awareness needs to be spread because a lot of misinformation is being circulated, most of which is propaganda to make Israel appear in a better light, to hide their crimes.

Now this is not up for discussion if you don't agree with me, fine, but no clowning on this post. Israel is doing this, no matter how hard you try to deny it. More awareness needs to be spread about this

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Right, hard to be conclusive about the cause of death but, uh…Well, it’s going to be plague, isn’t it?

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A bunch of plague pit ghosts invisibly playing Guess Who with their own skeletons while an archaeologist excavates them is honestly one of the funniest concepts I’ve ever seen.

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Here is the fanart and ready! Sesshomaru from the anime Inuyasha. I really enjoyed drawing this character. I played with flowers to convey the atmosphere. I also want to please you who like this characte

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otp meme 💕 [4/4] funny scenes

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“Okay. - College fund - pay our bills - and rent a ski condo in Aspen.” “Ski condo?” “There’s got to be some fun in our lives.”

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“do you ever wonder…do you ever think about

if we met up that night and had a chance to-”

“all the time.”

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Favorite Dynamics:

Angel, Cordy, and Connor

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Reblog if you are Team Cangel

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…an ode to 1970s skater girls.

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this is amazing

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FYI, skateboarding was invented by surfer chicks in the surf off-season. Males like to forget this, remind them.

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Cangel Analysis Part 7: Season 3, Part 2

Angel and Cordelia have not, at this point, consciously acknowledged that they are in love. The foundations and emotions are all there, but the words haven’t actually been spoken. In Season 3, Episode 7, Angel walks into his office to find Cordy arranging fake flowers for him. Cordy demonstrates both her concern for Angel’s welfare and her tendency to give affection with a backhanded complement (”You put something real in this hellhole and it’ll die like that.”) Angel smiles and tells her he’s never known anyone quite like her. Angel isn’t used to people fussing over him or taking care of little details like this. His family in Ireland didn’t seem particularly fussy or mothering, Darla was about as un-caring as it is possible to be, and Buffy, for all her wonderful qualities, hates minute details like this.

They practice sparring and their words sound very much like bedroom talk. This flirtatious style is probably unconscious on their part, but their comfort with proximity is potent. Angel fiercely denies Fred’s implications of their being anything between him and Cordelia, but who can blame her for thinking “kyrumption” when she sees them together? And she’s not completely off the mark, as Angel seems to realize later, leading to one of my all time favorite Cangel moments. He watches Cordy at her desk, and she of course notices, coming over to get coffee and asks about the staring. Angel he’s been thinking about relations between people, and then complements Cordy on her humor when she snarks a joke at him, while laughing a bit too hard. Angel has always thought Cordy was funny, and considering his brooding loner personality, a cheerful, upbeat partner who brings a smile to his face is exactly what he needs.

Cordy then says “Are you trying to say you love me?” Angel is caught completely off guard - since that was exactly what he was trying to do. Cordy doesn’t mean it quite that way, thinking he meant platonic love. This misunderstanding is, well, understandable; Cordy probably still remembers how Angel completely ignored her as a romantic partner in Sunnydale, and assumes she’ll never be girlfriend material for him. What was Angel’s intent in this scene, I wonder? To tell Cordy how much she mattered to him, I suppose - or even to hint that he’s been seeing her in a new way that he never thought about before. It all becomes moot when Darla shows up and angers Cordy against Angel. Cordy’s anger may stem in part from jealousy as well as disappointment, as she’s confronted with the fact that Angel slept with Darla. He has been involved with someone recently, so perhaps it’s not so much that he won’t sleep with anyone as he’s just not interested in her. True, most of her anger stems from disappointment. But there is just that little bit of annoyance.

Angel demonstrates his deep caring for Cordy when she’s attacked by Darla, and he swears “(He)’ll kill (Darla) for this.” Darla is currently carrying Angel’s child, but because she hurt Cordelia, he’s willing to kill her.

The next two episodes seperate Angel and Cordy, as they’re mostly action and plot-based. The two don’t really interact again until “Dad”, but all their interactions therein are important, as Cordy gives Angel some tough love about how he can’t be everything for Connor, and Angel trusts her with the safety of his kid during the plan the group enacts to distract Wolfram and Hart. Angel is now a father, and the mother of his child is dead. Cordelia becomes Connor’s de-facto mother in “Dad”; the nature of her and Angel’s relationship is now as close to a married couple as it’s possible to get without actually dating.

The episode “Birthday” is highly Cordelia-centric. Angel’s feelings about her are already very clear; he’s in love with her, he knows it, but he won’t admit it. He knows she’s the most important person in the world to him, but doesn’t think he’d ever be able to have a real relationship with her. But how does Cordy feel about him? In “Birthday”, Cordy is treated to an out of body experience, where she decides to trade in her upcoming death for a re-writing of history and a new chance on life. This means giving up her life with Angel, and the thing that provokes Cordy to make that choice is Angel speaking to the Powers that Be, claiming “She’s just a girl from Sunnydale who likes to play her.” This announcement of distrust in her is what provokes Cordy to sign away three years of her life and everything that happened in them. Angel’s words hurt her that badly. And on top of that, it’s seeing what’s become of Angel in the alternate timeline that induces Cordy to take on the old burden. Cordy of the “Cordy!” universe still cares for Angel, is shocked to see him in pain, and even kisses him. Remember, Cordy was interested in Angel on “Buffy”, and this episode shows that those feelings would never have really gone away if she hadn’t run into him at the party, so why would they have gone away now that she’s been practically married to him for three years? On top of that, Cordy elects to become part demon, risking everything, for the sake of saving Angel from madness. One glance at him is all it takes to make up her mind. She returns to his arms, older and wiser, but still not aware of hte implications of her decision.

“Providor” ends with the absolutely adorable scene of Angel and Cordy on a bed feeding Connor together. This scene is also great because it demonstrates their two characters, with Cordy suggesting practical and expensive uses for their newfound money and Angel shooting most of them down before accepting the idea of a ski condo. “Moonlight sails,” Cordy suggests to Angel after bringing up the possibility of a boat. Cordy always finds a way for Angel to live in the world, even if he doubts his own ability to be human.

So halfway through Season 3, the dynamic duo who make up the Team Mom and Team Dad of Angel investigations live together, raise a kid together, care for each other more than anyone in the world, are willing to make huge sacrifices for the benefit of the other, and are definately physically attracted. So what’s keeping them from figuring out that they should just get together already? Is it stubbornness or blindness? Whatever the reason, one more impediment is going to show up before the two can have their love epiphany.

Enter Joss Whedon. All couples, be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Cangel Analysis Part 6: Season 3 Part 1

Ah, Season 3 - or as I like to call it, The Season of Cangel. Because Season 3 is so much more Cangel-Centric than any other season, I’m going to divide this one in quarters rather than halves. So Episodes 1-6 of Season 3, Coming right up.

Heartthrob opens with Angel returning home after taking a spiritual retreat to deal with Buffy’s death. The majority of the episode focuses on Cordy trying to get Angel to talk about his feelings in the matter, while a vampire from Angelus’ past pursues him looking for revenge. In the final scene of the episode, Angel admits to Cordy that he’s okay, and that he worries about the fact that he’s okay. Losing Buffy, Angel says, didn’t kill him. Why, one wonders, was Angel able to deal with losing the love of his life? I’ve heard some people compare Angel’s reaction with Spike’s reaction to Buffy’s death, usually in order to compare Bangel with Spuffy. While I definately lean towards the latter category, compare Angel and Spike’s situations in Season 5/Season 2. Angel has a job, good friends, a very important woman in his life (Cordelia) and hasn’t really seen Buffy in over a year. Spike has no job, lives a miserable chipped life with pretty much no friends besides Buffy and Dawn, and was hated by the only woman he loved at the time (Buffy); also he witnessed Buffy’s death first-hand, so of course his reaction is stronger. But on top of that, Angel had moved on from Buffy. He makes that much pretty clear with his actions in this episode. Even though he claims to James that Buffy was the one he loved, a part of me wonders if he only said that to keep James from harming Cordy. James had (and who can blame him?) mistaken Cordelia for Angel’s girlfriend (”I’m gonna kill the woman you love.”) Considering that the writers had already planned to take Angel/Cordy to the next level this season, that had to be deliberate on their part. And Cordy is there for Angel in this episode, and willing to do whatever it takes to move him through this time.

Angel mourns the idea that since losing Buffy didn’t kill him, perhaps he never felt love, like James told him. But the truth is, Angel just hasn’t found “The one” yet. Buffy mattered, and Darla was a major influence, but neither relationship had the closeness or intimacy of Angel/Cordy. When Angel loses Cordy in Season 5, it pretty much destroys him; you can see it in his actions and how he basically goes for a suicide run to destroy the senior partners, now that he has nothing left.

That Vision Thing is all about Angel/Cordy, with Lilah invading Cordelia’s mind with fake visions and torturing her to get to Angel. When Cordy goes to the bathroom to try and recover from her vision pain, Angel insists on checking in on her. Cordy tries to pretend that nothing’s wrong. This is a key aspect of Cordy’s personality - she wants to deal with her pain alone. Also, Cordy hates looking vulnerable. Anyone seeing that she has feelings, that she’s fallable, even her best friend in all the world, is a repugnant idea to her. Cordy is grateful whenever Angel helps her, but she won’t be a damsel and she won’t be a burden. One thing I’ve noticed about Angel’s love life is that he tends to go for short blonde gals who give of the impression of being vulnerable, just like Darla does, her trademark of pretending to be sweet and needy. But Cordelia is very different from Angel’s usual type. She’s tall, brunette, and tough as nails. Not that Darla and Buffy are weak, (or Nina, Spike and Kate, for that matter) but that they give off the impression of being that way, of being someone who needs rescuing. Nobody is going to mistake Cordelia for a damsel in need of saving, not if she can help it.

As Fred points out in this ep when she calls Cordy “Angel’s lassie”, Cordy is more than another damsel needing saving to Angel - she’s an equal and a partner. And Angel is more than a meal ticket to Cordy. She tells him “Sure, I hate looking and feeling like this, but if I lose the visions, I won’t be able to help you anymore. You wouldn’t need me.” Cordy can’t stand the idea of not being useful to Angel. She’s gone from trying anything she can to get rid of the visions to enduring them for Angel’s sake. Angel tells Cordy “That’s not why I need you.” Angel needs Cordy for her spunk and energy, for her support and connection to humanity, for her love and caring for him, and her strength and determination. The visions are just an add-on.

Angel finds out what Lilah’s been up to, and not only kills the guy she’s been using to hack into Cordy’s head, but threatens to kill Lilah too if she comes at him through Cordelia ever again. Now in Season 2, Angel locked a bunch of evil, but human lawyers in a room with killer vampires,and later on in that season realized his mistake. Angel has rules against killing humans. But when it comes to Cordy, those rules go out the door.

In “That Old Gang of Mine”, each member of Angel Investigations is put to a test to see where their loyalties lie. Wesley defends Angel against any cricism, Gunn’s loyalties waver in a criss, and Fred, the newest, most mysterious member of the gang, proves her loyalty in the clinch. But Cordy’s loyalties are never tested or even questioned, because at this point doing so would be ridiculous. Cordy is practically married to Angel Investigations; she took on the visions and sacrificed most of her career for the sake of helping the helpless. She shows some annoyance and jealousy towards the Three Furies, who Angel has some kind of a sexual history with - and specifically Angel, not Angelus. Cordy will continue to be annoyed at every one of Angel’s past dalliances over the course of Season 3.

In “Carpe Noctem”, Cordy confronts Angel about Fred’s crush on him and insists that he confirm to Fred that they didn’t go on a date the night before. In Cordy’s own words, she tells him “She’s got the big puppy love. I mean, who wouldn’t? You’re handsome, and brave, and heroic…” Angel perks up at these compliments, grinning big time; Cordelia dishing out complements is quite rare, and indeed she immediately backhands it with “Emotionally stunted, erratic, prone to turning evil, and let’s face it, a eunic.” Angel’s smile slips away and he immedately gets defensive, displaying how important Cordy’s opinion is to him. He agrees to tell Fred, but quickly jumps on any excuse not to. He shows jealousy towards Cordy when she flirts with the guys at the gym. Angel gets his body transferred with an evil old man throughout the majority of the episode, and of course Cordelia is the first to figure out what’s wrong - “Doing the mystery dance with some cheap blonde?” “Brunette, it was a brunette.” “You’re right. This isn’t like him.” The episode ends with Cordy revealing that Buffy is alive again.

In “Fredless”, Cordy opens the ep by mocking Angel and Buffy’s relationship, in a scene that I really enjoy, mostly because I always found Buffy/Angel to be very overblown in its execution. So seeing the oh-so big and important romance between them get taken down a peg is kind of satisfying. But from a Cangel point of view, this once again marks Cordy displaying hostility towards a romance of Angel’s that isn’t her. Later on in the ep, Angel is again over-sensitive to a criticsm of Cordy’s (”You think I’m fat?”) and way too eagar to get patched up by Cordelia after a fight (”Ooh! It’s my turn!”). I like the contrast in Angel and Cordy’s very casual, everyday relationship, which involves lots of little moments sprinkled throughout episodes, to Buffy and Angel’s melodramatic “big” romance, which tended to be composed of scenes like the one Wes and Cordy mock in the intro. The reason Angel and Cordy were never as overblown is because theirs is a relationship that’s built to last. Joss Whedon described Angel and Buffy as being “very Romeo and Juliet - it happens and then it’s over.” That was the problem with their relationship. It was the kind that worked well in between battle situations and dramatic confrontations, but would fizzle if they tried being together on a day-to-day basis.

In “Billy”, Angel starts training Cordelia in combat. The episode deals largely with sexism, and how men treat women. Angel is the only guy who is resistant to Billy’s primal rage powers because of his inherent lack of hatred for his victims. Even though he’ll always be there to protect her, Angel doesn’t see Cordelia as the damsel who needs saving, and Cordy won’t be that herself. She takes charge, learning self-defense, and even helps save the day in this episode .Cordy and WEs have a discussion that puts both their thoughts on dating into the spotlight. Cordy has gotten to the point where she thinks perhaps their all better off being alone. That’s a pretty depressing thought, but consider that apart from Groo, who lives in Pylea, Cordy hasn’t had a date since Season 1′s “Expecting”. Not exactly the best romantic impression.

Cordy inssits on staying at Angel’s side, even after he’s touched by Billy’s power and, as far as she knows, Angel will kill her. But Cordy is just that loyal to Angel - and I think Angel kept his speech ambiguous because he wanted to see how Cordy would react.

At this point in Season 3, Angel is almost conscious of being in love with Cordelia. He hasn’t quite had the epiphany yet, but he knows that she’s the most important person in his life, and that he shares a relationship with her unlike any he’s ever had. Darla was a kind of dark mistress, even a mother figure (ew) to Angelus and to Angel; Buffy was very much a “high school romance”, even though Angel wasn’t in high school. Bangel had all the earmarks of dramatic teen romance, the kind that’s exciting and dramatic while it lasts, but doesn’t promise much of a relationship in the long-run. Cangel, however, is an adult romance. Angel and Cordelia were best friends long before they realized they were in love, and ultimately that kind of slow-burn attraction makes for a partnership between equals - ultiately a more rewarding romance than one based on hormonal lust.

Cordelia too has Angel as the most important person in her life. But she has other friends, and other priorities, and a life outside of him too, which helps to make the relationship less co-dependent than a high school romance might be. Cordy has had lots of dates here and there, but only one serious boyfriend, her disastrous and lust-based fling with Xander. And just like Angel’s past relationships, that one was nothing like what she has with Angel. To Cordy, Angel is a friend and a partner. He’s someone she finds desirable, but also her ally in danger. Their relationship functions more like a marriage than a tryst or even a platonic friendship. Even though the universe contrives to keep them apart in later seasons, they still had the strongest relationship in either one of their lives.

PArt 7 will cover Episodes 7-11. Prepare for the son.