The Nazi Israeli army began sweeping, destroying and bombing buildings on a very large scale, using weapons that we have never heard of before and that are very strange, as shown in the picture.
The Israeli incursion into the heart of Gaza City has forced countless families to flee south, leaving behind their homes, memories, and everything they hold dear. Imagine over 2 million people crammed into an area smaller than 40 kilometers, struggling to survive under constant bombardment. Streets that were once filled with life are now ruins; hospitals are overwhelmed, and basic necessities are scarce. Children are terrified, families are torn apart, and nowhere feels safe. This is not a battle it is collective punishment, a humanitarian nightmare unfolding in real time, and the world cannot turn away.
Map of Gaza City:
🔻 Blue: Fully controlled by Israeli forces
🔻 Red: Almost fully controlled by Israeli forces
🔻 Green: Currently under heavy fire, with many displaced people and civilians inside
🔻 Remaining areas: Where most of the remaining civilians are located
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U will suggest something like stop relying on ai. Dont treat clothing as disposable. Stop buying things from Amazon. And your fellow landfillcore Americans will say: If I have to think about how my actions affect other people, I will die. Is that what you want? You want me to die?
i finally watched heated rivalry and though nobody asked i am going to give my opinions on it. i did like it. i watched the whole thing in one day and it made me very happy. i really like the characters and their story together. however. i think the writing and narrative approach to the story is fundamentally wrong.
for a show called "heated RIVALRY" there is literally no rivalry between the main characters whatsoever. there is absolutely no conflict derrived from the sport itself or the characters' battle for success within the sport, against each other or otherwise. for a show about hockey, hockey is completely and entirely irrelevant. which, okay. i get that not everyone actually cares about hockey. maybe someone finds the aesthetics of professional sport appealing but not the sport itself. personally i think that's kind of tacky, but whatever. my real issue is that the environment of hockey, the toxic masculine homophobic environment that creates 98% of the conflict of the show, is used as a tragic oppressive setting that is NEVER actually explored in the show. at all. the Only Actual narrative threat that exists is this looming homophobia that ilya and shane (or scott and kip) will experience should they make the smallest mistake, and it is never once portrayed in the show. the ONLY homophobia that is displayed in the show AT ALL is ilya's brother calling him a slur on two or three occasions (which is a whole other thing about the homophobia in other countries being, again, used to angstfarm a tragic setting without ever being properly portrayed, that i do not feel qualified to speak about). there is no earnest exploration of consequences for their actions, making the threat itself feel incredibly narratively shallow and disingenuous.
so the show isn't about hockey. it's not about them playing hockey they hardly play hockey on screen at all. it's not about them fighting each other for cups, it's not about the stress their rivalry puts on their relationship, it's not about their struggle to succeed in the sport at all. it is about their relationship—essentially a healthy, happyish relationship with minimal issues between them—with the threat of being outed as the only thing making it difficult for them. but we never see that. they hardly even explain what that could actually look like. would it ruin their careers? how? would the media attack them? would they be harassed and put at risk? would their family? would they just lose their fanbase? would they lose sponsorships? would they lose rapport with their team? their contracts? anything? not a single question like this is even asked, let alone answered, by this show. it is fundamentally without stakes or conflict. if they explored more of ilya and shane's journeys within the sport, their struggles with their career and how the game affects them mentally or something, then it wouldn't be so big of a deal. but the fact they refused to expand the narrative into anything actually involving the sport, and then didn't develop a real risk factor outside of it, makes the story feel narrow and majorly lacking.
i would even, in my most cynical mind, go so far as to say that building narratives like this fundamentally avoids writing real queer stories. i'm not going to be someone that says you need to include homophobia in all queer stories, but this is a story which—and i cannot stress this enough—only has a singular conflict: homophobia within professional sport. it is already obvious that nobody involved in this had any real love for the sport of hockey, so to use that homophobic environment as a tragic setting and the Only Conflict Of Your Story without treating it with any care or attention at all, feels really disingenuous, and almost insensitive. i enjoyed the show. i really did. i just wish we got queer stories that respected themselves more than this
omg can y'all stop saying jake and neytiri "never cared about spider" and that "spider meant nothing to them" just to argue against spiri haters. spider and kiri not being actual siblings does not require that other shit to be true You Are Also Wrong. the "a son for a son" line at the end of way of water could, in its most cynical reading, be interpreted as jake saying he will take spider away from quaritch the way quaritch took neteyam away from him, as neytiri meant it when she first said it (though i think it is very obvious that the line means he will love spider like he is his own son despite quaritch taking neteyam away from him). however. the sacrifice scene in fire and ash has A. jake calling spider son and B. spider calling jake dad. So like. let's be real here. this was not some sudden revelation. this was an incredibly emotionally charged moment that did not create new feelings, but forced admissions of LONG EXISTING feelings that were ALREADY THERE. jake sees spider as a son. spider sees jake as a father. So Much of fire and ash's plot + the final battle between jake and quaritch is around jake believing himself a more deserving father figure to spider than quaritch. he wants to keep him because that is his kid. be real. be so real. that being the case does not mean that spiri is incestuous. you do not need to force nuclear family dynamics upon the blue people from an alien moon. spider seeing jake as a father figure and jake seeing spider as a child he raised and thinks of like a son does not mean spider has to view jake's other children as his siblings. Let's all be smart about this
i'm really baffled by some people claiming spider is going to turn on the na'vi/empathize more with the humans as the movies go on. As Though fire and ash didn't have a whole sequence of making the audience sit with the possibility of spider accepting/indulging in his relation to quaritch and empathizing with the humans for like 15 full minutes before uprooting and destroying any supppsitions you may have made about that, and making you feel stupid for even making them. they literally made a narrative point about how stupid and irrational it would be for him to do that. Come On. he accepted that his death would serve the planet and its people and was ready to embrace it. yeah that could grow some resentment in a guy but he's the type to let it fester and fizzle and develop suicidal ideations not the type to lash out because of it. be real
i love the difference between the moment spider called jake dad and the moment he called quaritch dad. when he said it to jake it was earnest and desperate and pleading, and when he said it to quaritch it was mocking and sarcastic and nervous. it was leverage both times, but the difference is how he felt about saying it. he wants jake to be his dad in a very real way, and in that moment that admission/realization absolutely guts him. whereas quaritch is a father he didn't choose, and hates having to accept his relation to.
similarly i am fascinated by the difference between spider and jake's perception of / feelings about quaritch. to spider, quaritch is the father he wants to be rid of; someone he desperately wants to stop trying to love him as much as / in the ways that quaritch does. but jake sees quaritch as lost and in need of guidance. he sees him as someone who can be free, if only he chooses to free himself. there's a veryyy interesting conflict there that i hope properly comes up at some point
i'm so deeply moved by spider and jake's relationship and how beautifully devastating the sacrifice scene was. it was the culmination not just of the general na'vi uncertainty over whether spider belonged with them, but of jake's grappling with guilt and fear and resentment of his own humanity (a lot of which he processes through/projects onto spider). jake deciding to kill him was a moment of fully admitting to and confronting his inability to protect spider, or his family. he's realizes as they fly away after escaping human captivity that spider's humanity will always make them vulnerable to humans coming after him---just as his own humanity does. such a major theme of this movie is internal battles with guilt and self loathing; this moment is jake admitting that he is not strong enough to protect the things he loves, because his humanity makes him weak and vulnerable. he's trying to launder all of this through spider, as though killing spider would kill whatever was weak and vulnerable and human inside of him as well. but then he doesn't. he doesn't kill him, because he realizes that it doesn't matter. the threat of human colonization exists regardless of he or spider's direct ties to them. he forgives spider for the transgression of his humanity by forgiving himself for his own. he can still protect his family, despite it. he can still protect spider.
there's also the aspect here of neytiri, and her acceptance of spider's humanity being the closure for her arc of resentment towards jake's and her children's. it's such a beautiful moment that i'm sure has been discussed to death already, but it is just so deeply moving to see her accept spider and see him the way she accepted jake and saw jake at the end of the first movie. their humanity doesn't have to compromise them when they continue to Choose to fight for the na'vi and continue to Choose to protect pandora
Hello! Have you ever heard of a "city of the dead"?
It's a place where the living reside, but they're dead! They're doomed to die, either quickly through direct targeting or slowly due to the absence of vitality in their city
Wherever you turn, you find nothing but death, displacement, homelessness, destruction, hunger, thirst, ignorance, disease, and rampant infection.
It's my city! It was fully with life until the butchers passed through it! Since the beginning of the massacres, I've been struggling to save myself and my family.
I am Mohammed from Gaza I’m sharing my story with hope in my heart, because your kindness has already given us so much strength.
a 31-year-old living amidst the war in Gaza, a place deeply affected by conflict and hardship. I hold a Bachelor degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences , I graduated with very good But Unfortunately, I did not get a job opportunity.
my family
Before the outbreak of war, my family and I had a comfortable life in our beautiful home filled with cherished memories. However, since the conflict began, our lives have been turned upside down. We now find ourselves living in a small tent, exposed to the harsh elements and constant threat of violence.
Our home, which once embraced us, is now destroyed It became a remembrance
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A picture of me and my family in front of our destroyed house.
👉Our house was bombed in the 2008 escalation and we built it, and also in the 2014 escalation the house was destroyed again and we rebuilt it, and in this 2023/2024 war the house was also destroyed.
Every time we start again, the Israeli occupation destroys us again
Life is unbearable. It has become hell for us. destruction, no education, no future
We can't stand it anymore
The situation here is dire. Food and basic necessities are scarce, and famine and malnutrition have become rampant. Our lives are hanging by a thread, and we fear for the safety and well-being of our children every single day.
The cost of living here has become extremely high. All of our resources are going towards securing food and trying to escape from disaster, desperately seeking a lifeline.
We are yearning to escape this nightmare and rebuild our lives in a safe place.
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Hickey's total rejection of Christian morality, bitterness towards England and desire for personal freedom
how despite how these sentiments may appear at first to be at odds with acting on behalf of the British Empire, they show up again and again in colonial expression, particularly from queer colonialist agents and writers
colonialist conceptions of frontiers as places outside morality, places one could go to escape restrictive morality as well as places one could go to escape toil and drudgery
that this was a conception that painted these places, (particularity tropical islands, like the ones Hickey planned to escape to), as sites specifically of sodomy and cannibalism, acts which the colonialist imagination linked
how Hickey's queerness and cannibalism are linked, both in that the first act of cannibalism he preforms is of his lover, after murdering him in an embrace, and that the same rejection of morality that allows him to love and desire men allows him to consume them with a similar lack of shame
the implication through Goodsir's taunt about Hickey's "mam" preforming butchery and Hickey's philosophy about survival as "a nasty piece of business" that his rejection of morality was necessary to his survival, that if he hadn't spat out morality he would have starved
that Hickey's willingness to practice survival cannibalism where Crozier is not is legitimately more practical and more geared towards survival then giving the dead Christian burials
which doesn't fucking matterrrrr because Hickey is still deeply impractical, his colonialist violence towards Indigenous people deprives him of a chance at a better source of food (one that, unlike human meat, has actual anti-scorbutic properties), and the entire voyage is trapped in the arctic to die together, the colonialist conceptions that got Hickey onboard doomed him from the start
or, from a slightly different angle, Hickey was doomed even before he boarded by the implicit order of execution he was running from ('I can't go back'), even without being stuck in the ice he would never reach his tropical paradise escape because that did not exist. England successfully executed Hickey in the end, all he managed to do was delay his death for a few years and take part in the systematic murder of Indigenous people in the meantime
that, with some admirable exceptions, by and large historical queer colonialists who chafed against Christian morality and sought out frontiers for personal freedom where unwilling or unable to disinvest themselves from empire and whiteness & interacted with the source of their freedom as primarily a destructive force
the implication of the end of the hodgson speech. if i were a braver man i'd kill mr hickey but i'm hungry i'm hungry and i want to live. the only way to stop being hungry is hickey. we hate him but we need him to do the stuff we can't bring ourselves to do. we'd rather hate him than hate ourselves. woughghgh
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