i love you like an alcoholic.

general x readers blog. :-] (requests: open)

[l0verb0t]

INTRO.

l0verb0t (loverbot) is a character(s) x reader blog run by @robo-bud.

I mainly prioritize male + nonbinary reader inserts since there isn't many, as well as polyam fics.

[ Kyle/Robo/Cal. | He/Him. + Rust/Rusts | 17. | Mixed. ]

TAGS. / MASTERLIST. / REQUEST FORM.

support: gazaesims.

(dni underneath.)

You will be blocked if you:

Met the general dni criteria. (ex. racist, queerphobic, misogynistic)

Adding on to the first one/being more detailed: Pro-isreal, anti-blm, blue lives matter, or anti land back.

A NSFM (occasional posts are okay, just if you properly tag it), gore, or yandere account.

Anti mogai, anti neopronouns, transmed/truscum, or mspec lesbian/mspec gay.

Proshipper or irl people shipper.

Anti kin, anti selfship/anti self insert, or a furry hater.

Fan of: HP, any of vivziepop's creations, AOT, South Park, Harley Quinn show, Stranger Things, DSMP, or FNF.

[robo-bud]

[Image description: A plain doodle of Jason Todd gesturing towards a large palestine flag. / End ID.]

@dcufans4palestine COMMISSION SHEET.

general info:

— commissions are paid for through a donation to any of the options listed on the dcufans4palestine's carrd. while this commission sheet is for a dc centered event, i'd also be willing to do stuff for marvel (and possibly invincible and dead by daylight). at around 70%-80% completion (with copymarked wips along the way if you want. to see how the process is going) you must send proof of donation and then I'll handle the finished piece likely a day or two afterwards.

— you can contact me here on dms, or more preferably at robo.bud (discord). please reach out to me before sending money through as i'd like to access whether i'd be comfortable and/or able to take on your commission.

— writing and art will likely take around 3-5 days, especially as i'm doing a monthly art challenge at the same time right now. i only have 4 slots open (0/4).

— nsfw pieces aren't something i've done much, but i'd be willing to try with a $5 discount. (unless you're commissioning something already priced at $5) only for 18+.

— i have examples linked, but most of everything is older stuff since i haven't posted much for awhile.

— if there's a * symbol beside a point, it means you should discuss exactly what you want from me and we can talk prices.

commissions:

writing: examples.

— $5: around 0.5k words.

— $10: around 1.5k words.

— $15: around 2.0k words.

— * $20 or $25: around 3.0k to 4.0k.

art: examples.

# proportional length. (starting prices are for single, colored + shaded sketches.)

— $5: bust.

— $10: half body. (usually cut off under stomach, pelvic, or right over belly button.)

— $15: full body.

# additional add-ons.

— + $10: clean lineart.

— + $15: for every additional character.

— * + $5: sketch background. (i'm not the best at them, but i'd be willing to try sketches.)

will and won't do: ask if what exactly you want isn't mentioned.

— okay with: the main stuff (fluff, angst, hurt/comfort), major character death, alternate universes, character references, plot heavy fics, polyamorous relationships, * mini comics, self insert, original characters, oc x canon.

— not okay with: heavy gore, aging up minors for nsfw, underage nsfw, pedophilia, incestous relationships (all forms, whether that be step, foster, and familial figure), celebrities/actors, a/b/o, and yandere.

— relationships i'm the most comfortable doing: clark kent/lois lane, clark kent/bruce wayne, bruce wayne/selina kyle, (non-movie) bruce wayne/eddie nygma, mary jane watson/peter parker, (atsv) miles morales/hobby brown, dick grayson/koriand'r, tim drake/kon-el kent, cole cash/zannah of khera, cole cash/bruce wayne, michael carter/ted kord, vic sage/helena bertinelli.

— (nsfw) kinks i'm the most comfortable doing: breeding, (minor) blood kink, (minor) knife/gun play, praise/degradation, pegging, bondage, petplay, feminization/masculinzation, cockwarming, brat taming, spit kink, boot kink, and daddy/mommy kink.

[l0verb0t]

i haven't posted in awhile, but i promise to once artfight is over. i just need to post my commissions and this event in general.

[l0verb0t]

anyways, i have a request form now. i'll be working on birthday and roadtrip fics for jason tomorrow because i'm less sick.

[l0verb0t]

nevermind. feel like shit, got sick. I'll have to release the fic tomorrow.

[l0verb0t]

✶ DC (DETECTIVE COMICS) FIC LIST.

A compilation of all my dc characters self insert fics. to be added on and not listed in order of date.

⋆ DICK GRAYSON / NIGHTWING.

01 | breakfast date. #no plot. a fic about taking dick out to a cafe early in the morning. [neutral] 02 | winter’s morning. #a drabble about waking up next to dick. [neutral] 03 | the morning after. #minor plot. you find dick on the fire escape after he got beat up the previous night. [male/masc] 04 | bed warmed. #no plot. longer fic about waking up next to dick. [male/masc]

⋆ JASON TODD / RED HOOD.

01 | hearts coming. #minor plot. hurt/comfort fic about comforting jason during a breakdown. [male/masc] 02 | aftermath loving. #no plot. fluff fic about the reader insert very affectionate with jason. [male/masc] 03 | home sweet home. #minor plot. angst, minor hurt/comfort. a fic about the insert getting increasingly worried about jason after he's become hours late to coming home. [male/masc] 04 | haircut. #no plot. fluff fic about jason's hair getting cut by the insert. [male/masc] 05 | ticklish. #no plot. a drabble about stitching jason up and discovering he's ticklish by accident. [neutral] 06 | home bound. #minor plot. old. a general queer jason focused fic, less of a self insert one. [male/masc] 07 | soft. #no plot. a simple fic about jason being unable to fall asleep while in his boyfriend’s arms. [male/masc]

[l0verb0t]

alright. i'll finally be back tomorrow with a birthday related fic with jason.

[nebulacrum]

Since tlou part 3 has been announced this is a reminder that neil druckmann is a massive zionist, and this isnt even something you can say “oh but we can seperate art from the artist!11!!!!” Bec he has talked about how the narrative and story of part 2 was inspired by his need to “get revenge” on palestinians. He actively donates to the IOF and buying his games is funding genocide. If i see it on my dash im blocking you.

[nebulacrum]

I mean this is a game in which ellie’s notable line is “i’m going to find and kill every last one of them” which. Yeah. But in case you needed any more incentive:

[7eyedflute]

The Not So Hidden Israeli Politics of 'The Last of Us Part II'

'The Last of Us Part II' presents what at first seems like an evenhanded point of view, but perpetuates the very cycles of violence it's sup

[l0verb0t]

gay motherfucker

[l0verb0t]

jason todd × male/masc reader. | soft.

SUMMARY: a simple fic about jason being unable to fall asleep while in his boyfriend's arms. WARNINGs: physical contact, && self depreciation on jason's end. WORD COUNT: 1200+ NOTEs: third person && no plot. chronic pain jason mention. [man, boyfriend && lover, and he/him pronouns used to refer to the insert/reader.]

Bodies are a tool; if your own can't be exploited for your goals, it needs to be purged of everything that's holding it back until all that's left is a blade ready to cut out whatever else gets in the way next.

Anything else, and you're done for. They haven't been anything else to Jason for a long time.

He hasn't thought about that for awhile, through.

No matter how broken it is, he isn't going to waste the years he's spent molding his own back into something he can actually use for nothing. His aim is decent, enough so that he can trust his won't be as easily torn apart as before.

That he can dig his fists until it feels like bone grinding against flesh into anyone who thinks about it.

Since the pit, it's only ever worked against him.

There was a constant ache where ripped skin, long since healed into jagged muscle, would build up to a searing pain just to settle and repeat. The worst of it was over the entirety of his back, running along until his hips. He got used to it, though. He had to.

It's never been enough to knock him out, and instead it's been a constant reminder to stay on edge, forcing him to work off as little as a few hours of rest when days worth were better suited.

It's never gotten better. He doesn't know how it's been so long, and it's still just as painful.

Meds help, but his boyfriend has been trying to find more solutions to dull, distract it, anything.

It's been months, and it's still weird to call him that. Wherever that's been coming from, it's been more worth while to take the good with the bad, even if there's a chance he might never get used to it. Jason loves him too much not to try.

A couple years have wasted away since the initial meeting.

It's nauseating to think about how days went by, mostly spent in the dark of them and around those who's jaws he'd rather blow off than listen to yap, and he doesn't have much to show for it beyond a relationship that could end, ripped away at worst, at any time.

But it's been worth the risk. The days spent wondering if there's anything for him beyond being a reverant dealing out violence for the sake of ridding streets of filth. That he can actually live.

It's been around a week since he's stayed the night, since he's slept a full night, but at the rate he's at, it's going to take a while longer.

A call was all he needed to be convinced, and he tried not to make himself sound stupid whenever his voice dipped into a quieter tone as that conversation went on. He agreed to everything, not a single push back just so he could listen to him longer.

There was a pile of blankets stacked up on a bed he was brought into, not even that far into the night. Some he recognized were once stored away in the apartment.

It was definitely another attempt to get him to sleep better; he knew that. And he made sure to voice his appreciation later in the night between another pair of lips.

Complaints started being thrown around as soon as he began to get dizzy while underneath the heavy fabrics, not even an hour into the night.

He was really only doing it to mess with his boyfriend, voice low in the other man's ear, to keep him up and reap whatever reaction he could draw out from that. It wasn't unbearable, but no protest came when a couple were pushed aside in favor of being pressed better against each other.

Warmth is far from settling back into Gotham. He almost slid back into concrete while on the back.

But he'd rather deal with the cold itself, flooding in through the unfinished seals in the windows, than where he's stuck now. Take every blanket and push them over to the other man so he can breathe. It's hard enough already to keep it at a steady pace with his chest so close to his own.

Instead, one of his arms is in the same position as hours earlier, stuck underneath, wrapped around the back of the man in front of him, his fingers still tracing the spine.

Whatever time it is, his eyes are sore enough that he'd rather rip the lids off than continue to get irritated with every blink. He's been waiting however long, and with every attempt, he's woken back up to absolute darkness.

The sun doesn't seem to be getting any closer. So he waits.

His entire face is tense, most of all around the frown carried over from hours before, when he pretended to be asleep to urge the other man on. He doesn't need someone to dote on him all night.

Often he finds himself blank; every thought that could be a blur that comes with any silence he's left alone in. He wouldn't know how long he'd be staring before every little thing would become overwhelming again.

It would come in to rip him from even peaceful moments, pushing back fond memories in favor of nothing but the shame he'd be left with afterwards.

It'd fogged over whispers like earlier in the night, where they were lying beside each other as his boyfriend rambled on about whatever he was talking about, somewhere along the way, his head resting against Jason's shoulder.

Jason wouldn't say anything about the spacing out for a long time. As soon as question after question came in after brushing it off for all that time, he gave in.

He doesn't know why. Maybe he's just grown soft that the idea of actually working things out together seems plausible despite everything.

It's confusing enough that the other man stayed. Why would anyone be willing to deal with that? With him?

He doesn't want to mess up one of the few good things he has going for him; he can't afford to dump more of his problems onto him, but they're obvious. His love is going to realize he isn't worth the pain, and he's going to be alone again.

It's going to happen one day; it's inevitable. He just wants it to last for as long as it can in the meantime.

It doesn't feel natural to him to be alone in someone's presence without blood dripping between the spaces in his fingers.

Despite who it is and how he might as well have shown every wound to even equate to what he's opened up about, it'll never solely be comforting. Jason was never meant for softer things in life; he knows this.

But that doesn't mean anything in the end; he isn't meant to be breathing at all. He's tired of only getting what he deserves. Why should the scum of the earth be allowed to enjoy what little life they have while he's stuck cleaning up their corpses afterwards?

So instead of spending another night out in a city where the most he'll be rewarded with is a couple more scars, he pushes further into the other man's arms. He takes the arm not currently being squished under the other's weight and trails a hand up from his arm until he's tracing his boyfriend's jaw.

Jason stays where he is, barely allowing himself to breathe.

And then he takes what little space they have to press his lips against his, his thumb trailing under the other man's bottom lip. One of the few things he'll eagerly embrace, despite the shaky breaths taken in through his chapped lips each time.

[porcelain-rob0t]

thinking about the swiftie who got arrested for dodging the idf draft, that shit was so fucking funny good for her, the one good swiftie

[porcelain-rob0t]

this is the punk taylor wishes she was

[muchymozzarella]

DON'T FORGET WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT PALESTINE!

THIS WAS BACK IN 2019!

This is from a Vice article from April 2019 which I will lnk in the replies!

[starlightomatic]

Check out Mesarvot Network, an organization that supports young Israelis who are refusing the draft

[pronouncingitwang]

[ID: A twitter screenshot followed by many screenshots of a Vice article.

On April 2, 2019, Taylor Swift Updates @/LegitTayUpdates tweeted "💬*** | UPDATE|| As most of you know, I haven't been very active in the past couple of months because I was in prison :/ I'm back now though :) more Taylor Swift updates coming soon!" ali @/ali_ansel replied, "omg why" and LegitTayUpdates replied, "💬| I refused to join the IDF Imao"

The Vice interview excerpts read

Q: Moving on to some less funny stuff—did you always know you had the potential to get enlisted?

A: Oh yes, it is the reality in Israel. Since I was 12 I knew was going to be enlisted into the IDF. And I didn’t care because in my schools they always taught history as “[Israel] is always attacked. We are always the victim. We are just protecting ourselves which is why we need your to serve in the army.” I just believed all that because I was, you know, 12. A lot of kids I speak to don’t want to enlist for different reasons: some don’t like fighting, some don’t want to waste three years of their lives, but everyone knows. When you come to Israel as a parent you know your young child will join the military someday.

Q: You weren’t being taught about the other side of the conflict in school, how did you educate yourself on it?

A: I started my enlistment process when I was 16 and I was already online looking at things. I saw that there were stories that I didn’t hear about in the Israeli media. That’s when I started to question it. That summer I met actual Palestinians at a school program, they told me so many sad things about their lives that I didn’t think could happen to someone on the same land as me. I had a friend who hasn’t seen her uncle in years because he lives in Gaza and she lives in the West Bank. She can’t leave without getting a whole bunch of special permissions, there are some people who will never be able to leave the West Bank. One time I was visiting London and I saw a newspaper talking about bombings in Gaza, that’s when I decided I just couldn’t be a part of the IDF.

Q: What was that refusal process like?

A: They tried to make me talk to a mental health officer, then eventually I was put on trial and sentenced to prison. It wasn’t that dramatic. So many people have gone through much, much worse. I’m one of the lucky ones I think.

Q: You run a page that a lot of people interact with regularly, so what was going through your mind about your Twitter account during the days before you went to jail?

A: I honestly didn’t think that they’d care that I was gone for a while! I didn’t expect that viral reaction at all, so out of the blue.

Q: I saw pictures of what looked like your writing on some graph paper? How were you managing to stay up to date with Taylor news while still delivering spicy takes on your account?

A: First of all I wrote way more notes than what is posted on social media. I was always bored so I was always writing. I specifically gave my notes to a friend who was allowed visitation, I told her to pick a page to post. She couldn’t post all of them because there were so many, but she picked the ones she thought were funniest and throw them up. She would also be the one updating me with what’s happening with Taylor and all of my Twitter mutuals.

Q: It’s super weird but your situation has unexpectedly raised a lot of younger people’s awareness to the Israel-Palestine conflict. People who were just looking for funny Taylor Swift tweets now are exposed to and are engaging in the discussion. What are some things you’d like people to take away from this story and your experience?

A: I’d first like people to be aware that the conflict isn’t equal. Palestine is not as strong as Israel, Israel isn’t full of only good Samaritans—there are bad people in every community and I don’t think people should ignore that. I think people should know that when Israel does an attack, they do it in a way where they don’t care about what comes in their way, so they hurt civilians. I’m against civilians getting harmed, and most of the time it’s the Palestinians who are getting harmed.

Q: How do you think the average Twitter youth could help?

A: Get engaged in the conversation, tell people. Call your representative or someone in the UN in your country and ask them to talk more about the conflict. If you could even donate a dollar or anything at all to organizations like the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund that would be a lot of help. The best tool to deal with this kind of conflict is knowledge. If you know what’s going on, and you’re informed, that’s the best weapon you can have. You won’t fall for propaganda if you know what’s happening.

/end ID]

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

good afternoon, day five of the strike for palestine! here are some action items for you to help palestinians

donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, the fund goal is 80% raised as of today

2. donations for the Pious Project, to help get menstrual products into Gaza. you can donate $5, $20, or bigger amounts depending on ability

3. download the Nomad app -> Menu -> Shop Plans -> Data -> Select "Middle East" (or if there is no option for that, choose "Global") -> enter data amount and pay (plans range from $4-$60, >20GB plans preferred!) -> do not activate eSIM! screenshot the QR code in the confirmation email -> email [email protected] with the subject title "[CARRIER] eSIM" and attach the QR code screenshot

4. download the Holafly app -> search for "Israel" in the search bar -> select data package -> Checkout -> Pay -> do not activate eSIM. wait for confirmation email -> email [email protected] with the subject title "[CARRIER] eSIM" and attach the QR code screenshot

Infographics souce for 3 and 4

[redvelvetwishtree]

[cjoat-boost]

@a-captions-blog

[a-captions-blog]

[Image description: Instagram post by rise_for_palestine that says: ‘Sorry, but we're not even having the same conversation we were having back in October. You're still talking about Hamas after 80 days of Israel slaughtering innocent men, women, and children? After no command center was found at the Al-Shifa hospital but dozens of hospitals have since been destroyed? After Israel killed their own hostages? After the IDF executed women and children at point blank range? Bulldozed hospital patients and buried them alive? Desecrated mosques and bombed churches, universities, and cultural monuments? The conversation has completely shifted because it's clear who the terrorists are and it's not Hamas. Israel must be dismantled, the 75-year occupation must end. (caps) Free Palestine (end caps) [two Palestinian flag emoji] \End description]

[astraystayyh]

this post actually broke my heart.

[redemotionalglobe]

[ID: Tweet by user @bassem__saad: have you thought of how full a room feels when there are two children in it? what does 12,400 children mean?

Quote tweet by user @khadljasays: I think about this poem everyday.

Attached image is a poem by Khaled Juma, a Palestinian poet from Gaza: "Oh rascal children of Gaza. You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window. You who filled every morning with rush and chaos. You who broke my vase and stole the lonely flower on my balcony. Come back, and scream as you want and break all the vases. Steal all the flowers. Come back... Just come back..." End ID.]

[l0verb0t]

anyways. already working on something for j, but here's another poll for whatever character fic should be worked on alongside his.

whoz nextz.

kori.

peter.

wade.

(bonus) gentleman ghost.

Voting ended onFeb 3, 2024

[l0verb0t]

n e ways. here's my drawbox.

[halalchampagnesocialist]

I won’t lie but I’m so sick of liberals on here saying you shouldn’t trust Al Jazeera as a source on Palestine when there are better ones. I’m sorry but Al Jazeera IS one of the better ones. It’s a well established fact that Al Jazeera can have awful, biased reporting when it comes to other issues or other countries, but on Palestine it’s great. Al Jazeera is one of the only news / media platforms that amplifies Palestinians. All its reporters are not only based in but are actually from where they’re reporting. Not to mention, it has multiple reporters on the ground in various parts of Palestine - in Gaza, in the West Bank, and in ‘48 (Israel). Al Jazeera does actually report what other news outlet say when it comes to Palestine too, it doesn’t obfuscate it like certain western media outlets.

Speaking of western media outlets, it’d be hypocritical to say don’t trust Al Jazeera when you probably get your reporting on Palestine from the New York Times or CNN amongst others. Those supposedly “independent” media companies which tow the US government line on Palestine and don’t question anything. So much of the reality on Palestine gets obfuscated by these outlets that they only report on things whenever israel is directly attacked. Al Jazeera on the other hand will report on daily occurrences in Palestine, not to mention publish analytical articles that analyse the occupation very closely.

Again, you may disagree with Al Jazeera’s positioning of things as well as questioning their motives (or Qatari gov to be more specific) etc and that’s fine! But to say they’re not the best source on Palestine when they’re one of the only ones amplifying Palestinian voices at a time when media reporting on israel from other outlets is absolutely dismal is ludicrous lol. As I said, I recognise AJ can have biased reporting on other issues, but just because an outlet has biased reporting on X issue, it doesn’t really cancel out the great reporting they may do on Y issue. I’m also aware that there are many other outlets who do great reporting on Palestine but AJ seems to have a decent sized audience in the English speaking world alongside its notably big audience in the Arabic speaking one.

It should also not be forgotten that Al Jazeera reporters Shireen Abu Akleh and Hamza Al Dahdouh were assassinated by israel while Hamza’s father Wael who is head of the AJ bureau in Gaza had his wife, grandson, and 3 of his children (including Hamza) killed by Israel due to their reporting, which means it counts for something.

[shofarsogood]

Yes, it's nice that they platform Palestinians. But they do so by promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. That's the problem.

Almost every article about Palestine contains incredibly biased and outright untrue information about Israel.

If people were capable of distinguishing between the two types of (dis) information, I wouldn't have a problem, but we've clearly seen that people can't really parse out fact from fiction. They're not capable of separating good info on Palestine with bad information on Israel. People reading Al Jazeera are often absorbing and repeating antisemitic lies, even if they're blatantly obvious to everyone else. (The biggest example being "Israelis stealing organs from Palestinians," when you can't use organs that weren't immediately harvested. No one is stealing organs from dead Palestinians.)

[halalchampagnesocialist]

I’m going to act dumb here for a second, but where have they spread antisemitic conspiracy theories? Let’s forget about the Arabic one for a second and focus on the English.

Out of everything ive read from them on Palestine, ive never come across any antisemitic conspiracy theories lol.

“Almost every article contains biased and untrue information about Israel.” Have you considered maybe some of the things reported about Israel are actually terrible because Israel and its treatment of Palestinians is terrible?

Also the israel stealing organs thing has been corroborated by other sources and proven true - whether its a practice they still do or not doesn’t change the fact they once did it and Israel especially to this day is known for withholding Palestinian bodies from their families after being killed for multiple days - sometimes even months.

I understand the worry about bad antisemitic information but I guarantee you there’s a difference between “bad information on israel” being actual antisemitism and negative portrayals of israel you disagree with.

[shofarsogood]

No, it hasn't been proven true and that's the problem. I don't have an issue with saying "Israel bombed these hospitals, Israel killed X number of people, Israel is depriving people of food..." That's all factually accurate.

What's not accurate is saying that hostages are well cared for, that Israel is attempting to take over Lebanon, that Israel is stealing children, that the whole thing is just colonialism, etc. That's just the Protocols of the Elders of Zion repackaged.

If your response to someone saying "I don't trust this paper because they say antisemitic things" is "have you considered that those antisemitic things are actually true?", you're just another antisemite.

[halalchampagnesocialist]

Tbh ive never seen AJ directly claim the hostages were well take care of. From what ive seen, a lot of that were conclusions people drew from the videos they saw of the hostage releases.

I’ve also never seen AJ claim Israel is trying to take over Lebanon lol? Nor have I seen the children thing.

And I’m sorry but so much of what israel is doing is colonialism whether you disagree with that assessment or not. Much of AJ’s ‘claim’ of that comes from their Palestinian analysts who actually are based on the ground or know people there but again, the idea that what israel is doing is colonialism is not unique to AJ but is a genuinely accepted idea on the left.

[fairuzfan]

You can't be serious. We have Wael AlDahdouh (before he was evacuated) and MULTIPLE aljazeera journalists putting their life on the line to report on the circumstances in Palestine. Like it straight up is a primary source with the faces of the people who are making these claims put outright. Unless you're implying that Palestinians are inherently antisemitic when theyre reporting on circumstances that directly affect them?

You have no idea how to judge sources and it's so apparent. CNN for example admitted ON AIR that they're reviewed by the Israeli army before they release information. And you want to say primary sources are unreliable?

Like... my family know people who work for or have worked for AlJazeera and I will never say they're unbiased but for Palestine specifically they're mostly unbiased because they cite sources directly. You can criticize the ways Aljazeera is wrong yeah but Palestine is one of the rare few instances they're actually doing good journalism most of the time.

Specifically for Gaza right now, they're doing an AMAZING job because because we have literal first hand accounts. These journalists are experiencing these things first hand.

Again, like aljazeera is not amazing as a news source but you guys have NO idea what to actually criticize about aljazeera. Each region has their own reporters and Palestinian reporters have a certain sense of responsibility that you all are insulting when you put down their reporting on Aljazeera.

[fairuzfan]

Btw if you're saying the children abducting is untrue it was reported by journalist Maha Husseini, who works for the Middle East Eye+euromed monitor, not Aljazeera. Again, another reporter directly on the ground.