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The Whale Star Thoughts

Read the English translations / tried my best to understand the Korean of the manhwa The Whale Star / The Gyeongseong Mermaid (up to the most recently released chapter) and wanted to process it - spoilers under the cut.

scorpionatori

@natsumeweek Day 7: Japanese/International Culture (Language) ☆Character Names + Kanji☆

post with list of kanji meanings and interpretations for all the recurring natsuyuu characters’ names

kuromeki-ouji

hayatims-deactivated20240111

some things that have happened since you stopped hearing about p/alestine after the “ceasefire” was declared

1,000+ palestinians were arrested in a mass-arrest campaign designed to, and i quote, “instill fear” - including children

al-aqsa mosque and worshippers were attacked and beaten

literal children, not even teens, children, were arrested and tried in a military court (this is not new, thousands of children have faced this terrorization over the years. Isr@el is the only country in the world that tries children in military courts. 500-700 children are prosecuted each year.)

a soldier deliberately ran over a child on a bike for having a pales/tinian flag on his bike. an adult man ran over a child with his car. on purpose. the child is 12. read that again.

sheikh jarrah was blockaded, illegally

whatsapp blocked the accounts of over 100 pal/estinian journalists

silwan, another pal/estinian neighborhood like sheikh j/arrah, is being violently ethnically cleansed to make way for more settlers

Isr@el has forced social media sites to censor the hashtags “free pal/estine” and “save sheikh ja/rrah” many posts and accounts have been deleted

25 pales/tinians have been murdered by the ID/F and settlers

in Jaffa, 300 arab families are under force expulsion orders to make way for more settlers. 300 families.

suicide rates in g/aza have risen to an all-time high due to PTSD and hopelessness

Pales/tinians in G/aza still do not have access to safe drinking water, electricity, medical care, and nutrition. families are still being displaced from their homes by settler colonialism. There is still an inability to mobilize freely, pursue a career, seek an education, or gain access to decent healthcare or mental health resources. The occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing continues whether you see on your feed or not.

arabnico

today marks one year since Eyad Al Hallaq, an autistic 32 year old palestinian man, was brutally murdered by officers of the israeli occupation police while he was on his way to Elwyn El-Quds Center, a school for disabled people.

they said he looked suspicious and accused him of holding a rifle while he was only holding a surgical face mask and rubber gloves. they brutally murdered him, even as his caregiver repeatedly screamed in arabic and in hebrew that he was disabled and that he wasn’t holding any kind of weapon.

read this article: 'He's Disabled,' the Caregiver Screamed. 'I'm With Her,' Eyad Cried. The Cop Opened Fire Anyway:

“The whole time she [his caregiver] shouted, “He is disabled, he is disabled!” in Hebrew, and Hallaq shouted, “Ana ma’aha!” – Arabic for “I am with her” – as he attempted to cling to his caregiver for protection. It’s not hard to imagine what went through his mind in those last terrified minutes, as three officers ran into the room screaming, “Where is the rifle? Where is the rifle?””

“The officers aimed their weapons at Hallaq. They were at point-blank range, standing over him at the entrance to the garbage room. Abu Hadid [his caregiver] kept trying to explain that Hallaq didn’t have any sort of gun – he was only holding the surgical face mask that is required these days at the center, and rubber gloves – when one of the officers fired three shots with his M-16 into the center of the young man’s body, killing him instantly.”

“Hallaq’s dream was to work as an assistant cook. In the meantime, he and others at the center would prepare food and go to the Beit Hanina neighborhood to give it to children with special needs there.”

israel has a long history of targeting disabled palestinians and their accommodations: a children’s hospital and a rehabilitation center for the disabled were damaged by israeli airstrikes this christmas. IOF officers pushed a disabled person over in their wheelchair, breaking part of it in the process. the occupation targeted an apartment that they said was a hamas operations center, but the targets were a physically disabled man, his pregnant wife, and their one year old child who were all killed. the remains of Iyad Salah’s wheelchair were found in the rubble. and more.

the occupation also leaves irreversible neurological, physical, and mental disabilities on palestinians by targeting highly dense populated areas, like the Gaza Strip. this is not an isolated and unique occurrence — notice israel’s bank of targets. this is unforgivable. do not forget and do not let forget.

aidonotknow

Thunderbolt Fantasy - The Sword of Life and Death

（殺無生 + 殤不患）

pxlestine

Here are the faces and names of the children that the terrorists ‘state of Israel’ martyred in Gaza Strip just in 11 days of aggression!

- Courtesy of @theIMEU

tamarrud

Yesterday, Israel bombed one of the biggest bookshops in Gaza. The Samir Mansour bookshop was one of the few publishing houses in Gaza as well. I saw a video of the owner of the bookshop fighting tears and talking about how much this bookshop meant to him and how he used to skip meals to be able to save money to get this bookshop going. This bookshop was part of the Kahil building which had various stores and offices.

In another video that was circulating, a guy from Gaza was explaining why Israel targets these buildings and towers. Every day you hear about a building targeted and leveled. He explains that these towers have been the main destination for the youth of Gaza as they usually contain coffee shops, bookshops, restaurants, educational and learning centres. So by destroying them, Israel is destroying memories and any potential for communal relationships.

This is what we mean when we say Israel is not only committing a full blown genocide as we have been witnessing publicly for days now, with over 200 deaths in the span of a week (as of May 19, 2021), but also this other form of incremental genocide that has been ongoing for decades; even when Israel isn’t bombing Gaza on a daily basis, there has always been an effort to erase Palestinian history and culture, from appropriating tatreez and the Palestinian cuisine to destroying literary works.

Highly recommend watching The Great Book Robbery documentary for more on that as it goes into the details about Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian books during the Nakba.

Erasing culture is an essential component of settler-colonialism, and what Israel is targeting in Gaza right now is by no means coincidental or “accidental”.

quasi-normalcy

TFW you’re definitely not operating an apartheid state

kenkaodoll

The way Kenshin stared into Kaoru 🥺🥰

Who need kiss when the main couple is too dumbfounded staring at each other

esgi

👏👏👏

saeedislamicart

يُستحب إحياء المنزل وتنويره بالصلوات والذكر ومكارم الأخلاق، التي صح فعلها عن المختار صلى الله عليه وسلم، لا سيما أوقات الخلوات والانعزال الإجباري من جراء هذا الوباء، عافانا الله وإياكم.. وثمة سنن نذكر أنفسنا بها، ويستطاب إشهارها هذه الأيام والله المستعان .