This is a sideblog, I will follow/ask/reply as 'birakura' Birachi | F | INTP | Asian | Film Buff | Literature Junkie | Animal & Nature Supremacist | Misanthrope | Nyctophiliac. President of underappreciated female characters. Queens I serve: Sansa Stark (GoT), Shimura Tae (Gintama), Mai (AtLA), Raven Reyes (T100) Koriand'r (Titans), Kocho Shinobu (KNY) Ships I'm on: Jonsa (GoT), GinTae (Gintama), Maiko (AtLA), Becho (T100), Dickkory (Titans), Doushino & Giyushino (KNY), Yuuma x Mikumo (WT)
I met this nice girl through my college friend. She's my friend's childhood best friend and I had heard so much about her so I was really excited to finally meet her. The three of us hung out at a stupid school-sponsored event into the late hours of the night, drinking soda and eating pizza and getting to know each other. At the end of it, she entered into a raffle and ended up winning free tickets to Disneyland. We celebrated and parted ways. It was the highlight of that semester.
A few months later, Israel began dropping bombs on her family home. I watched from afar as her entire life fell apart and her family was displaced and killed. Every time I asked how she was doing, she was doing bad.
In Palestine, as in a lot of places in the world, it is shameful to ask for money. A little bit after the war began, I passed a message along to her family offering to help raise funds for their evacuation, but they declined saying that they didn't want pity from anyone. Now it seems like they're running out of options.
My friend has already lost so much so please spare her the additional indignity of asking for help and not receiving it. I can't imagine how soul crushing it would be to do something you believe to be shameful and for your effort to go to waste.
Their goal is only $5000 and they've already raised ~$760, I don't see why we can't raise the full amount within the next week.
For nearly a year, my family in Gaza has been forced to move from one place… Noura Elkhatib needs your support for Help 12 People in my Fami
Verified by the fact that this is literally my IRL. DM me if u wanna see her Instagram or other contact info proving she's real. Tumblr is a rather unsafe place for Palestinians so I'd rather not publicize all her personal info but I've been pretty careful with the fundraisers I boost on this blog so I hope you can trust me here.
I'm not even mad that Aemond tried to kill Aegon btw, what is pissing me off is how indifferent the whole thing was.
Sibling angst can be so gut wrenching and we know the writers know this because they gave the twin guards a very decent angsty development with like, three lines of dialogue and one fight scene.
But the potential was totally wasted with Aegon and Aemond. The brothel scene should have been Aegon laughing at Aemond in a cynical manner and going full "Viserys learns that Daemon went to a pleasure house to celebrate the death of his son", humilliating him not because of some random prostitute but because Aegon is hurt that his "closest blood" was not there for him or Helaena after the death of their child.
Then the council-high-valyrian-argument should have been about Aemond going behind Aegon's back, plotting attacks without his authority because he feels the need to redeem himself for bringing tragedy upon his family.
It could still be "bully Aegon" and "I'm-better-than-you-Aemond" on the surface, but with more complex and nuanced reasons for behaving that way.
Aemond being the only one who knows that he was the real target and not Jaehaerys was the perfect setup for him avoiding Aegon and his authority as king because of course he's being rash and hostil towards his brother! He feels guilty and doesn't know how to cope! He's holding on to the idea that he's better than Aegon but the guilt is eating him inside!
But no. The gave us the most bland, boring, tasteless motivations for their characters' arc. I hate it here.
a man self immolated in front of the israeli embassy in washington dc yesterday. not just any man. an active member of the us air force. he live streamed his death, and said that he refused to be complicit in a genocide any longer. he said that compared to what palestinians were facing every day, setting himself alight was nothing.
let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.
his name was Aaron Bushnell. he was twenty five years old. and he isn’t here anymore because the political ruling class has decided that genocide is perfectly fine as long as it preserves imperialism. in the coming days, people will try to discredit him. to say that he was mentally unstable. they will try to bury his actions to save face and defend israel’s propaganda. do not let them. aaron knew what he was doing. he knew what he was doing when he put on his military uniform, set up his twitch stream, and made his final walk up to the embassy. he knew what would happen to him when he flicked that lighter. do not let them forget. aaron’s blood is on the hands of the political ruling class.
"The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements."
— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postface to The Three-Body Problem
“Oh nedcat is too boring to me, just a normal married couple you know”
he lies about cheating on her, except it’s the other way around from how it usually is. she hates his other son who isn’t actually his other son and he won’t tell her who the mother is. she was supposed to marry his objectively hotter older brother. they fuck so hard she aches afterwards. she tells him their toddler is afraid of his killer wolf and he says the kid has to toughen up. he’s a second son that never wanted to be lord, she tells him he needs to toughen up. he almost kills a man in a street because he believes that man is insinuating things about her. she thinks of how much he loved her hair while she claws her face off. and also they love each other deeply and are very devoted to one another
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