Letstalkpalestine

So some good news.

The WFP is actually reaching Ghazzawis for food distribution and has even helped Ghazzan bakeries in Deir Al Balah and Rafah reopen by providing flour, yeast, water, etc... according to Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary (this was on her story the other day so I can't link it).

The PCRF is also active in Ghazzah, providing medicine and even food to Ghazzawis in shelters.

Today, I ask each one of you to donate at least one dollar to both of these organisations, and more if you can spare it.

If y’all can’t boycott Starbucks and McDonald’s what use are you really? Because these aren’t places that you NEED (do not bean soup this post I’m so serious) what do you have that’s a NEED from Starbucks?? Exactly.

tragedy enjoyers (hi) talk a lot about inevitable tragedies where the character(s) were doomed from the start, but to be honest as someone who does not believe in fate/destiny/etc. irl, the kind of tragedy that Really gets to me is the kind where you can see exactly why and how this didn’t need to happen, and you can also understand why the choices were made that made this happen, and you watch an entirely unnecessary but devastatingly predictable tragedy unfold due to a series of understandable choices

Ride 747: Sugimoto's back

Pag 2

1: Those who won just look forward.....

Pag 3

1: Danchiku has won this race!!

2: Since they arrived at the same time on the second day, three of their races ended in a draw

3: And the fourth, the last lap with the ban on surpassing....

5: Showing an astounding tenacity, he held Sugimoto down and got the better of the final sprint before the finish line...

Pag 4

1: The second year Danchiku Ryuuhou obtained the jersey of the Inter High members!!

Pag 5

1: Ruaaaa!!

2: Yes!!

3: Let's go to the Inter High together!!

Hahaha, Danchiku!!

4: Danchiku-kun....

5: Ah!

Sugimoto-kun....

Pag 7

4: Sugimoto!!

Sugimoto!!

Imaizumi-kun

Pag 8

1: Nii-chan!!

Sugimoto fell!!

2: What was the crash just now.... huh!?

Huh

3: Sugimoto-san!?

He swayed.... and fell down as if he completely lost his tsrength!!

Is he conscious!?

Is he alright!? Sugimoto-kun

With that fall...

Pag 9

1: Sugimoto!!

6: Are you okay? Do we have ice water? Do you want a towel?

Pag 10

1: Imaizumi-kun....

Hotshot....

2: Did you give everything you had?

4: It....

5: It.... sure... seems like it

6: ….. everything

Pag 11

1: When I saw.... Danchiku from behind.... and I saw him raising his hand.... I don't know why but....suddenly... all my strength.... left me

5: It was a run that made us shake, an all-out sprint that captivated those who were watching you

6: You were cool

7: Could you.... pour some ice water on me

Pag 12

2: It made me shake too....!!

I felt the strength of Sugimoto-kun's wishes!!

It was the best run ever!!

3: So cold... it feels...so nice

4: Imaizumi

5: Yeah

6: Teru

Pag 13

2: Huh!? No... that's... that's

3: Teru?

4: Imaizumi... maybe, if on the fourth day... I go all out

5: If I get to go to the Inter High....

6: Could you call me “Teru”?

Ah? Why- ah, Teru as in... Terufumi?

7: No, no, well, it's just an idea!! I'll ask you again on the fourth day, yes!!

8: It doens't matter how I call you

You- you're right, it doesn't matter

9: But I'll ask you! Imaizumi

Please call me Teru from now on!!

Let's fight together in our last Inter High!

If I win...

Pag 14

2: That was supposed to happen if I had won...

It doesn't matter...

4: Thank you

5: Imaizumi....

6: Imaizumi

7: Please

Pag 15

2: Ride with my feeling of three years too

4: To the Inter High

Pag 16

1: Go there, Imaizumi!!

Pag 17

1: Got it, Teru!!

3: Sugimoto-kun.... you pushed Imaizumi-kun's!!!

4: Back!!

5: Danchiku!!

Pag 18

3: You too!!

Be resolved!!

4: Yessir!!

Pag 19

1: Thank you much for this all-out race!!

Thank you!!

2: Nii-chan!! On

Ah... Sadatoki...

3: I'm sorry, I wanted to show you something cool, but

4: I los....

5: Um... well, how do I say... if I put it into words, then that's it...

I los...

6: Imaizumi, could you give me the towel

Pag 20

1: Uaaaaa, I lost

Pag 21

1: I lost, I lost!

2: Uaaaaa

3: You fought by yourself, and you never gave up, over and over

Sugimoto, today you were the strongest

4: Dammit, I'm so frustrated too

Can't you do something about it, Onoda!?

5: Sugimoto did his best! And without doing anything wrong, too!!

Pag 22

1: On the fourth day of training camp, at 19:10 of the last day, the third year Sugimoto Terufumi.... with 45km out of 1000km left, retired

2: “Retirement race”....

Pag 23

1: Imaizumi, Naruko, and Onoda cleared the laps they had left

2: At 19:50, with plenty of time left, they cleared the whole 1000km

3: The two second years, Danchiku and Kaburagi, cooperated and cleared the whole 1000km, too

The other first and second years decided to retire early and ran errands

Pag 24

1: On the course

2: Remained two people, the first year Kinaka Tsugunao and Rokudai Renta

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/

Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/

Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel

Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one

You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them

Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture

If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already

Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything

Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything

See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.

Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare

KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

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“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down