hi im gusapat and you're watching no good fucking tumblr blog. this is a place where i just go batshit about my kids and it's all Gross Self-Indulgence so, you know, read the t&c first before you make yourself comfortable here.
i think i forgot to announce it before locking the stageverse blog, but stageverse has many things coming! and i know i said that a lot, but this one is very exciting 😂
one of the surprises is, well, the publication is moving to private subscribe model! it covers not only the main stv publication, but also stanverse fics, and other types of pieces. you can find and apply for it on the server.
this is all in preparation for something greater. i think a new era is upon us, with stageverse.
thank you for following this far, see you on the more intimate, more regular shows of stageverse!
The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know
Listen to this episode from Cocktails & Capitalism on Spotify. Continuing the story of Palestine, Leeh outlines the Great Arab Revolt and th
What will the maps of Palestine and Israel look like if Israel illegally annexes the Jordan Valley on July 1?
Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Here we have collated our free ebooks, reading lists and ongoing publishing on the Verso Blog. These resources challenge much of the zionist
Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off
LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources
(includes some of the reading material recced below)
The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List
List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal
Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)
Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury
Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge
(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications
(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press
(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books
(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications
(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press
Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan
Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books
Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.
Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press
Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press
(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press
Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)
Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press
Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press
Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House
Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:
Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)
Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine
Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books
Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books
Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury
Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury
Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books
The Works of Mahmoud Darwish
Human Rights Reports & Documents
Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’
UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022
UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022
Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022
Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021
Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)
Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004
it is honestly so difficult to continue many of my projects now the sociopolitical currents are more clear than ever. while i never pretend that my works are apolitical, or even subtle about the commentaries, a lot of it is also not really glaring.
stageverse and all projects of mine will be on hiatus for some time. i dont think this is the time to indulge it; nor do i currently have the energy and attention for it. there are also many other things i need to figure out and rework about the projects once i can afford it.
im not someone with a big platform, but if you are seeing this, please get informed and show solidarity (through marches or any other means) on the palestine occupation. read some books about the topic, be it nonfiction like the ones ilan pape wrote or the ones verso books made available, or fiction, like adania shibli's minor detail. here is a reading list.
we demand an immediate ceasefire and liberation for palestine. we also demand that everyone stand in solidarity and advocate for an end to other cleansings happening right now, from congo, sudan, to papua, and others, and for justice and accountability to be brought to the perpetrators. no one is free until we are all free.
i’m sorry but it is 2023 some of you NEED to let go of this belief that appearance and morality are linked you can not keep living in this disney world where all bad people are ugly and all good people are beautiful you can not
he’s pathetic. he’s emotionally repressed. he’s lost every fight he’s ever been in. he’s a whore. he’s hopelessly in love. he’s a war criminal. he’s socially inept. he’s hated by god. he’s even transgender
i adore when people have diy blorbos. like they made an oc and went "oh this little freak Rules" and they just dont shut up about them. i think its fantastic i love it so much
oh my fucking god can we kill the whole thing of “platonic friends don’t DO that!” shut UP oh my god. fuck offfff pleaseeee <33333 platonic friends can be the most important people in the world to each other, platonic friends can think about each other a lot and be inspired by each other and choose to live for each other and be possessive in life or death situations and be intense i’m so tired of people acting like platonic friendships can’t be that i’m tired of them being viewed as less as!! this is exactly what i mean when i say platonic relationships are not less than romantic ones!!!!!!!! and i’m so so tired of people misinterpreting that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are the talk of the town, always down for good dirty fun, usually tastefully covered in blood, and boy do several people online want to cosplay you. moderate villainy, with a good dash of style and wit. let's be real, you can also probably shapeshift.
i was hoping I'd get the same result as the one above but I'm actually more pleased with the one i got
dynamite supervillain
you have everything -- the class, the audacity, the panache, the playfulness, and the shocking, wine glass-shattering acts of villainy. congratulations on winning the uquiz. it is possible and you are better than everyone else.