Seeing so many people say ‘well we grew up watching movies about revolutions, and sided with the resistance, why are people shocked we became the resistance?’, because to them that was just fiction. White creatives will make worlds & systems that are the real lived experience of black, brown and indigenous people, alter it by making the ‘bad guy’ (usually white supremacy of some sorts) a little different and the ‘oppressed’ will be a different color/aliens, robots or even humans going against evil aliens (white supremacy of some sorts). And we all root for the underdog, most of us know in real life — we are the underdog. But who’ll charge the streets after watching these movies? Everybody with nothing to loose, aka black, brown and indigenous people, alongside those with more privilege who recognize nobody’s free till we’re all free. There’s not a quicker way to let me, and other’s who’ve clocked it, know that watching those sci-fi, dystopian and fantasy movies/shows are nothing more than escaping. This shit was never fantasy for many of us.
To to everybody who thinks ‘gosh these kids are crazy, these protesters are going to far’, get out of the way, and become a spectator for the fight to YOUR liberation without lifting a finger or join the side you know will drag you under in the name of ‘the law & your protection’.
I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship
Very insulting honestly the way some Israelis insist their discomfort since October 7th is on equal terms with our families' forced expulsion, land theft, killing, rape, and subsequent poverty in refugee camps and intense criminalization within foreign governments for the past 76 years. We were born into this suffering at the hands of your "country".
February 5, 2013. A Palestinian child cried after his family’s house was demolished by the municipality in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. Bernat Armangue.
Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!