#And also i did recieve a lot of anons in a short time span last night and it was pretty overwhelming

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re the palestinian bird thing: different anon here, idk what they meant but it’s worth noting that, in addition to political fuckery, that the campaign to remove the word “palestine” from the bird's name might have partially been an attempt to correct a bit of historical revisionism. the only reason that region of the world is commonly known as palestine today in the first place is because the roman empire renamed the area to “syria palaestina” after the roman-jewish wars. they had previously allowed the province to be called judea/judaea, as in jews and the jewish kingdoms that existed there before being conquered. and it wasn't until much later that the arabs now known as palestinians came to be. (disclaimer: I don't speak hebrew and can't be bothered to track down hebrew articles from a decade ago to translate by hand to fact check how much this played into the bird thing but it is a reasonable possibility and an understandable one, as jewish heritage has been so often destroyed and erased. regardless, the palestinian response to make the bird a symbol is equally understandable.) relatedly, be careful about the phrase “from the river to the sea”, because while it's sometimes about palestinian liberation, it's also often used as a dogwhistle that means “kill all jews in the levant”; and the dogwhistle version has become increasingly common as of late. look into the organization called standing together for antisemitism-free activism and jewish/palestinian solidarity.

I see what you mean, the history you mentioned seems to check out and it's unquestionably been a tumultuous part of the world that's been given a lot of different names over time. However I don't really feel comfortable in agreeing it was combating revisionism because it happened during what I understand to be a violent occupation. Without a source or truly knowing the intentions it's just kind of speculation.

"From the river to the sea" was used in that post in the context of Palestinian freedom and peace. Related to that point, I also received another ask concerned with my use of the word "zionist" as it has historically described a very wide range of ideas, and has also been used as an antisemitic dogwhistle. That was not my intent, it's the word I was most familiar with to get across my point that I don't support violence against or the erasure of Palestinian culture. Those using violence and calls for peace to excuse antisemitism are despicable. One can and should be an ally of both Palestinians and Jewish people.

I looked up Standing Together, I can certainly get behind their message of peace and cooperation, and people in Israel who are working to end the genocide deserve so much respect and admiration. It seems like reception to the movement has been mostly positive, but I feel it'd be irresponsible not to mention that the PACBI wing of the BDS movement has taken issue with it in the past week. I don't feel qualified to take a definitive stance either way, especially as I also can't read Hebrew or Arabic to get more direct contex. I encourage anyone interested to learn more and come to your own conclusions.

My overall point is that I do not support the genocide the Israeli miltary is enacting on the Palestinian people. I want to share more posts about Palestinian culture, art, and joy in a time where there is effort being made to erase it.

Finally, while I do my best to make sure what goes on this blog is accurate, I just wanna make it clear that I'm neither an expert at research, nor am I able to be a definitive resource for this topic (or frankly most things).

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Are you still into Tokio Hotel? Is Lucy still gone? Still friends with Bine? How was your 2019?

HELLO ANON!Oh my god, I'm genuinely really surprised anyone is still lurking around thisblog! I never imagined I'd have someone reach out to me after being MIA for solong!But HI, HOW ARE YOU? I hope life's treating you well!REGARDING BEING INTO TH:In regards to the querstion of me still being into Tokio Hotel, the shortanswer would be yes. But it's a little bit more complicated than just sayingyes and be done with it.Whenever TH has their little (or sometimes not so little) hiatuses, I usuallylike to dwell in other fandoms as well. Sometimes it's not even intentional,but happens quite casually with me watching a show or reading a book that I'vewanted for a long time or whatever. In these in-between moments, my hype for THis also sort of on hiatus along with them, because nothing really all tooexciting is going on.Now I did think of going to the album listening session, but as Anon might ormight not know, my TH experience is a shared experience of me and my bestfriend, so if she isn't willing to jump along, I'm also not all that excitedabout it either. This time around, we were both kinda considering if it's evenworth the money, because we honestly think that the session would be veryrushed and just not all that which we would imagine. Maybe we'd consider it ifthere was only one bigger group of people going to the session, and notmultiple sepparate ones in the span of a few short hours.We are also careful with our money, because we are both investing in differentthings, and wanted to kind of save up if we find whatever they are gonna bedoing in the summer worthy of attending (there was talk of a Camp-like eventthat would also last for a few days but was on a crusie or some shit lol). It'salso a bitch being fully employed, because that means you have to sort out yourfree days carefully in order not to run out of them by the time those bastardwant to start anouter EU tour (and honestly going to concerts would beo ur priorityto any other event).Besides that, Tom's personal relationship and all the media ickyness that camewith it really pushed us further into our fan-hiatus as well. It's hard toexplain, but I honestly don't feel like the band is quite the same at thismoment, which draws me a bit further away from them. I can only hope the musicis gonna be great, still. At the end of the day, this is still my band, andnothing will change the literal 15 years of my life spent with them. Akin to amother who never stops loving her child even when they're really annoying andrebellious in their teenage years lol. But the general vibe I get from themright now isn't ANYTHING what it was when they dropped Dream Machine and I'mjust not a fan of whatever »this« is.REGARDING LUCY:Not much to talk about here. She is still MIA. I am unaware if she's read mymessages/posts or not. She either occasionaly lurks here just to check butdecided she's still not ready to return, or she's completely 100% gone. I can'tknow, she has not contacted me. So unless YOU'RE her, I haven't heard from her lol.FRIENDS WITH BINE:Yes! She spent her New Year's in Slovenia with my squad down here! We drank a lotof Ramazzotti spritz, played videogames, board games, popped some fireworks andall that other good shit that comes with it! Because she's out of the TH fandomnow, she also generously sold me her entire TH collection, so I don't mind thatone bit lmao.MY 2019:I mean, in review, I don't even remember all that went down in 2019 lol. I'm sobad at these last year rewinds, because my life is pretty monotonous,unfortunately. Regarding TH, I've been to a couple of shows at the beginning ofthe year, and then WON the Camp which was really exciting! Not only that, but Ialso managed to win the talent show they held there, which resulted in megetting tattooed by Bill himself. So you know, that's pretty huge lol. Otherthan that, I decided to fully employ myself, so I'm getting paid more than Iwas paid as a mere student. I started (and am currently still in the processof) remodeling my room and buying myself a self built gaming rig, effectivelyturning my room into a big media space. I’m thinking of maybe starting streaming sometime this year just for fun once I’m done with my room! (Would you watch me fail at videogames anon, because I can make that happen lol) I also ate alot of delicious vegan food anddrank a shit ton of Ramazzoti. It's been a great year, honestly. But with THbeing so super busy ever since they dropped Dream Machine, years 2017, 2018 and2019 honestly all felt like one big massive year combined. Granted also one ofthe best years of my life! I've met so many great people and travelled Europefar and wide – it truly was a blast!I hope your year was also great Anon, and that you entered 2020 in style! ❤️HOW ABOUT YOU!How about you my friend, are YOU still into TH? How’s your year been? I’m open for a chat, because I’ve just recieved my new mechanical keyboard and I’m obsessed with typing on it man. If only I’d be able to RP now - I think I’d never be able to just stop typing lol.