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Palestine Masterlist 

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

Palestine 101

Rainbow washing 

Frequently asked questions 

Myths 

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 

The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 

The Gaza Strip

The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba)

Al-Nakba (documentary)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)

Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article)

Donations and charities: 

Al-Shabaka

Electronic Intifada 

Adalah Justice Project 

IMEU Fundraiser 

Medical Aid for Palestinians 

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 

Addameer

Muslim Aid

Palestine Red Crescent

Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948

Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom

Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre

The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians

The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

Ten myths about Israel

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Palestinian Culture:

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Palestinian Costume

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution

Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)

Falastin: A Cookbook

Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen

Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions

Palestinian Culture before the Nakba

Tatreez & Tea (Website)

The Traditional Clothing of Palestine

The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity

Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing

Palestine Traditional Costumes

Palestine Family 

Palestinian Costume

Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia

Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

Jenin, Jenin

Born in Gaza

GAZA 

Wedding in Galilee 

Omar

5 Broken Cameras

OBAIDA

Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)

Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

AL NAKBA

Gaza Lives On

Gaza we are coming

Lost cities of Palestine 

Stories from the Intifada 

Last Shepherds of the Valley

Voices from Gaza

Muhammad Smiry

Najla Shawa

Nour Naim

Wael Al dahdouh

Motaz Azaiza

Ghassan Abu Sitta

Refaat Alareer

Plestia Alaqad

Bisan Owda

Ebrahem Ateef

Mohammed Zaanoun

Doaa Mohammad

Hind Khoudary

Palestinian Voices, Organizations, and News 

Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)

Defense for Children in Palestine

Palestine Legal 

Palestine Action

Palestine Action US

United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

Times of Gaza

Middle East Eye

Middle East Monitor

Mohammed El-Kurd

Muna El-Kurd 

Electronic Intifada 

Dr. Yara Hawari (suspended on X 10/25/2023)

Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

Noura Erakat

The Palestinian Museum N.G.

Palestine Museum US

Artists for Palestine UK 

Eye on Palestine (suspended on Instagram 10/25/2023)

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Teto IDOL

Still kind of have art block, but hay I finished the Teto IDOL art :) IDOL By: YOASOBI Character: Kasane Teto (SynthV)

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Amnesia Bowuigi?

Bowser and Luigi are married (and I guess you could say with children cuz of Bowser) but then Luigi is in the garden and had an accident. Something falls on Luigi’s head. Rushed to the hospital. He’s fine. Nothings wrong. Bowser leaves to get him food because the accident made him miss lunch and we all know how he gets when he misses a meal. Luigi wakes up and Mario and peach are there. Mario laughs at him for being hurt so easily. Normal brother behavior. peach says she’s glad he’s okay and tells him to be care ful next time. Luigi chuckles and says he’ll try. Then in the middle of their banter, Bowser comes in, angry bcuz he couldn’t get any food. Before Mario and peach have a chance to respond Luigi starts freaking out that bowser is there. He shouts things like he can’t kidnap peach. They all look at each other and the doctor comes in after hearing the shouting and tells everyone to get out. They talk. And the doctor says Luigi has amnesia. The doctor says to have him live his usual day to day life and the memories will come back soon. Bowser takes him back to their castle. Luigi acts terrified the whole time. Driving in the car, getting to the house, and as Bowser cooks him his favorite food. He soon snaps and makes a run for it when Bowser isn’t looking and goes to Mario and peaches house. Bowser heard him leave but let him go anyways. When he gets there he rants about how scary it is.

There’s so much one could do for an ending so I’ll go with…

They’ve calmed down to casual convo and are being served dinner. Boom. Bowser bursts in and is like “I’m taking my husband home now” no one stops him. That is his husband. Though Luigi is lifted up from his chair thrown over Bowsers shoulder and is kicking and screaming to be put down. Looks at Mario for help who just gives a sad smile and waved goodbye. On the way there Luigi gets flashbacks of being dressed as peach being kidnapped. And as they get in the castle he gets other memories of their lives together. But what really snaps him back for good is when bowser jr runs up and hugs him asking where his mommy has been and apologizes bcuz it was his fault Luigi got hit in the head. Luigi smiles at him and they hug. Says it’s okay. Luigi apologizes to bowser. Bowser says it’s fine… not the first time he chose Mario over him. (Early relationship issues) Luigi gave a sad chuckle and hugged him knowing it’s not really find.

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So I know canonically Luigi gets a lot of flack from the other smb characters, being all second-best or whatever BUT I had a thought considering the Mario Movie canon™.

Imagine you're a toad in the mushroom kingdom and this weirdo nobody shows up, is literally seemingly insignificant and runs off with the princess somewhere, then like 2 days later you find out he literally saved two entire dimensions of reality and THEN you learn he has a Tall, Handsome Brother too

I have to imagine particularly in this canon he's just as famous as his bro. Even though he was trapped by Bowser most of the time I feel like it's outweighed by his simpability. He's just the handsome brother. Cool Daniel, if you will.

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A "wicked enchantress" is running around inflicting people with fairy-tale-inspired curses. Peach's castle gets hit with a Sleeping Beauty curse, and the usual solution doesn't work so Mario and Luigi go chasing down the enchantress.

They catch up easily enough, but she blasts Mario with a spell that turns him into a wolf in a red hoodie. Luigi has just enough time to think "wait a minute, Little Red Riding Hood isn't about a curse," before he's zapped with a "Cinderella" curse. He's stuck in a green ballgown and masquerade mask that won't come off.

Of course, that doesn't bother him much, and turning Mario into a wolf only gave him natural weapons, so they kick the enchantress's butt for a few rounds before she runs away.

Meanwhile, Bowser's castle was hit with a Beauty and the Beast curse... while Bowser wasn't home, meaning Junior is now stuck as a beast and honestly having a great time. The servants are pretty unhappy though and it'll be a pain having Junior shed all over everything (and privately Bowser feels bad he wasn't there to protect everyone, plus kissing Junior's newly-fluffy head didn't break the curse which makes Bowser terrified that he doesn't fully love his son and really is as selfish as people say) so he sets out to find whoever did this and rip them apart.

Soon thereafter he runs into what appears to be a princess with very cool taste in pets, and can't resist turning on the charm.

Luigi would have cleared up the misunderstanding right away, except Bowser is so bad at being charming that it loops around to actually being charming. Telling him who he is after flirting back would just make things awkward and maybe get Luigi set on fire. And Mario, despite lacking thumbs or proper vocal chords, is making it extremely clear that he doesn't approve of Bowser and "Princess Emerald" getting too close. Better to cooperate until they find the enchantress and high-tail it out of there as soon as she's defeated.

Unfortunately it turns out the curse still follows Cinderella rules, so at midnight the ballgown disappears and Bowser finds out after all. He's just as pissed as Luigi was afraid he'd be. There's some fire breath tossed around. But he's more embarrassed than anything else, and the fact that he's the only one without a curse (and that the "dog" is actually Mario) cheers him up enough that he decides to stick it out as part of the team.

He doesn't admit that he'd really started to like Princess Emerald in the afternoon they spent together. She was nice. She listened to him. She laughed at his jokes. And he can admit he's got a thing for big blue eyes. The fact that all those traits are the same whether Luigi's in a dress or in overalls is not one he wants to think about.

(The curse affects Luigi from noon to midnight so he still gets mornings to look like himself. Honestly it wouldn't be bad at all except a ballgown isn't very practical and Luigi's mildly offended that the curse also shaves him.)

So they go on, Bowser tries not to flirt, Luigi tries not to fall for his flirting, they both fail and wolf!Mario suffers.

Eventually they do catch up with the enchantress (probably after a lot of other curse-induced fairy tale shenanigans) and try to fight her. The gang is winning when she suddenly blasts Bowser with something that seems to kill him outright. Luigi, devastated, kisses him before getting up to keep fighting.

The enchantress sees this and goes, "Eewww!"

Turns out she's a little girl who got her hands on a powerful magic artifact. True Love's Kiss didn't break any of the curses because she's seven and kissing's gross! Now that they know she's a child (and that Bowser is just sleeping like Snow White) Mario and Luigi are reluctant to fight at full strength. Instead Luigi distracts her with his pretty pretty princess accessories, so Mario can dash in with wolf speed and steal the artifact.

Bowser is extremely confused when he wakes up, saying something about a weird dream he had, but all the curses are broken and everyone can go home. Problem solved. Definitely no lingering feelings and awkward secrets.

Definitely nobody is going to keep thinking about that teary goodbye kiss when Luigi thought Bowser was dead...

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Some Mario and Luigi headcanons as I’m bored and have a bit of free time on my hands

So as we all know Mario and Luigi are Italian, or well Italian-American as they grew up (and probably were born in) Brooklyn. So growing up in an Italian household would have certainly helped shape their personality’s, and how they react to certain situations. Also I just wanna add real quick, I wish they had more thicker accents in the movie, but i get why they didn’t with the voice actors they had

For instance they could probably come up with some very creative colourful insults without actually having to swear, because god forbid they swore around their mother, unless they we were wanting to get hit with the spoon they kept the swearing for occasions outside of the house

I don’t think either of them (even Luigi) would be out of by yelling, so if someone who was usually very intimidating started to shout at them, I think they would actually calm down a bit, that is if they were even scared of them at all. So I’m just imagining Bowser yelling at Luigi and Luigi being like:

“why are you raising you voice, I can hear you perfectly fine. The only person that scares me when they raise their voice is my mama and Nona, so sit down and calm yourself.”

They raise their voices when they want to be heard, growing up in a loud household that’s something that becomes a habit, and they are very loud when they want to be.

I imagine when they want to curse they do it in Italian. I imagine the Koopalings or even the princess picking up one of these swears, not knowing what it actually means, and just repeating it to one or both of the brothers, Luigi would probably stand in shock before telling them not to use the word, while Mario ends up laughing his ass off, wheezing on the ground while Luigi is trying to explain why it’s a bad word while frantically looking around, scared that his mother has somehow heard them and magically teleported to them, spoon in hand.

I think that if Luigi gets to know a person he acts a bit more like Mario, more confident and slightly smug, if he had more confidence facing off villains he would be quippy with his comebacks

I think that although Luigi is awkward he isn’t to bad in the social area, if he needs to speak out and make a point he will, but you best believe he’s going to think it all through before hand, and when he speaks out, he has every answer prepared with a complimentary call out/ insult if needed

Mario would use his insult talent for evil, in which I mean he’s going to use it against DK, Wario, Waluigi, Bowser, maybe even Daisy if he and when he wants too. And I can totally see him teaching either the little toad children or the koopalings how to come up with brilliant insults on the spot, while also teaching them respect and manners

“remember kids, be kind to strangers unless they are rude, treat people how they treat you, and remember, respect is earned not given. Now, what do we call someone that is disrespectful and rude to a cashier who is only doing their job?“

Their mother always made sure their friends were fed whenever they came round, so Mario and Luigi continue that, Mario almost pops a vein when he learns that the princess hasn’t had a proper meal in 2 days due to focusing on her duties instead of her own health. He sits her down with a nice meal and doesn’t leave her until she’s at least taken a few bites, he can’t and doesn’t want to force her to eat of course, but he won’t feel right with himself until he sees her have at least 5 goods sips from some soup or something. Her favourite is eggplant Parmesan

Luigi if staying over at E.Gadd’s would prepare the professor some food, which is a nice change from the instant noodle he practically lives off of, he will even make food for the ghosts, he knows they technically need to eat, but he knows some of them still enjoy eating, he has his own ghostly puppers to prove that fact, so whenever he’s around he likes to make a big pot of soup for the ghosts that enjoy his cooking.

I’ve brought this up in a previous post, but Mario and Luigi’s grandfather (the one featured in the movie) is an ex-boxer. So the boys probably grew up taking boxing lessons from him and his old boxing ring. That is probably why they were so good at fighting from the start. I imagine they give lessons on how to box, Daisy and maybe Roy taking a particular liking to it. But before their first lesson they said to the class:

“Our grand pop’s always said to never use this outside of the ring unless needed. He would say if he ever found out we were using it to bully a kid, he would ring our necks. You use it if your defending yourself or others. Or to put it more bluntly ‘I taught you it’s never okay to out your hands on someone, but it’s fine to hit back’ and he probably also would have said

“They hit you first, you make sure they never land another hit on you again”.

Whenever the boys are visiting their family, or the family is coming to visit them, they try their best to be as vague as possible about their fights, they keep on their gloves the entire time so that their family doesn’t see the battle scars. Their father has spotted them a couple of times, he try’s not to make a big scene because he knows his wife will make an even bigger one if she saw them, so he just slaps them behind the heads and tells them to be more careful and not be idiots while saving the kingdom/ world. Their niece would come over and visit on her school holidays, so she would inevitably see the scars, so she’s been told to keep quiet about them so as to not give her great aunt (the boys bother) a heart attack.

When their niece does come to visit she enjoys seeing the princess, one time she was lucky enough to take part in go karting when the event lined up with her stay. She likes to hang out with Toad, and I think she would grow to become friends with the Koopalings when they are around at Peaches castle, I have a feeling she would be the closest with Ludwig

Mario and Luigi get into sibling squabbles all the time, they love each over dearly but you know they insult each over when alone:

Mario: Luigi your looking extra ugly today? What did you do? Get a shower? Your skin looks like it’s melting off like the wicked witch of the west

Luigi: Look who’s talking you red bowling ball, you look like a live child between Danny DaVitto and Golem from lord of the rings, who’s very existence makes god weep knowing he has to look at your face when you die

Mario: We have almost same face you you dried out celery stick

Luigi: You’re the one that started it ‘jump man’

Anyways I hope you liked this rambling of ideas

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Ok someone had a idea similar to this but. The toads in the mushroom kingdom love Mario right? But they don’t pay any mind to Luigi even being like “we wanted Mario not this guy.” Even toad who loves the Mario bros has canon moments of preferring Mario over Luigi.

So what if all the times Bowser kidnaps Luigi (over time is becomes less like being a prisoner and more like a guest) Luigi gets to know the koopa kingdom and befriends them. So much so Luigi is just as popular and liked there as Mario is to the toads. I like the idea that if Mario, Luigi, and Peach over go to the darklands for some royal meeting (maybe a peach treaty?) all the koopas, goombas, and shy guys welcome Luigi with open arms and literally pay Mario no mind or show complete distain. I can see Luigi confiding in some of the koopas he considers friends how he feels second best to Mario at home and in turn they just hate Mario.

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I haven't even seen the mario movie yet but I went in a blind frenzy and drew this within an hour and a half for a school contest (I won 🤭)

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I wish I could write fics, because I DESPERATELY want a fic where like both Bowser and King Boo decide to break in to kidnap Luigi one night, but they accidentally do it the same night.

So Luigi just wakes up to them fighting in his room and he just assumes he's still asleep so he doesn't really react much, because this is the weirdest dream he's ever had.

And then both of them are yelling at Luigi to ask which one he PREFERS kidnapping him, like a competition, and keep being like "WELL MY CASTLE HAS LAVA SO HE CAN BE WARM IN THE CAGE!!!" "HE WILL DECORATE MY MANSION IN THE PAINTING ON THE MANTELPIECE!!!" Etc etc.

And Luigi, assuming he is asleep because this is too weird to be reality, just goes "I don't even WANT-a to know what my subconscious is-a trying to tell me." And lays down to go back to sleep, confounding both Bowser and King Boo.

It would also be hilarious if they both decide to just stay the night, because neither of them want to be the first to leave and let the other one win. And so when Luigi wakes up and they're still there he's like "THAT WASN'T A DREAM???!"

Cue both Bowser and King Boo trying to out-rizz each other to Luigi, like "Do you regularly dream about me?" "CLEARLY HE MEANS ME!"

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So Bowuigi idea where everyone like ends up in Brooklyn for something like idk what and Mario and Luigis mom ends up seeing the koopalings and hear them call Luigi ‘dad’ and ‘papa’ and the she had no idea so it goes down like this

Mama: (seemingly furious) Do you mean to tell me all this time you’ve been in a serious relationship? With a giant turtle man-thing? And you didn’t bother to tell me?

Luigi: W-well mama I-I thought-

Mama: And you have all these children, who seem love you and see you as another father and you- (smiles and looking happily at the koopalings) didn’t bring them to meet their nonna?

(Then she proceeds to dote over each of the koopalings like a loving grandma, hugs and hard candies galore.)

Luigi: I don’t get it, I thought she’d be furious

Mario: Well you did just give her 8 grandkids

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Luigi is a jack of trades type of guy

He’s a plumber, but is more into the technical side of stuff compared to Mario (by that I mean fixing cars and messing with wires) so he knows how to fix stuff, not because he’s so good at it, but because he’s probably broken the exact same thing before and had to fix it in a panic. He’s clumsy it happens all the time.

Growing up in Brooklyn him and Mario probably used to get into all sorts of stuff, so Luigi probably knows how to pick locks, maybe even Hotwire cars (referencing to previous paragraph) not cause he was a bad kid, more likely his dad lost the keys to his car and had Luigi Hotwire it for him since it would be cheaper to do that then get a new set.

Probs knows how to spray paint too, and he’s not a wise mouth, he knows when to use his words and what to say, I think h would come under with some very creative insults, he’s street smart.

Apparently his granddad is an ex boxer, so he probably taught both of the boys how to defend themselves, and took proper boxing lessons when they where older (14-19 maybe?), again going up in Brooklyn at that time, with him being a target for bullies he would get into fights. So the man definitely knows how to fight.

And let’s ignore the Mario movie and how it portrays Luigi’s abilities (I loved the movie but they did him dirty with how little he showed up) he can jump higher than Mario, knows gymnastics, can even f*cking break dance! And does a lot of running (mostly from enemy’s but still) this is all canon or at one point was. He may be sacred of stuff and look a bit on the scrawny side, but he is definitely physically fit.

He probably knows at least one thing about any given topic, he likes to read, so you could ask him how the mushroom kingdom was established and he could answer in the heart beat, but if you where to ask what Princes Peaches grandfather was (name wise) he wouldn’t have a clue.

He has the magical ability to befriend people, that quite frankly, should not be befriended, or at the very least would be very heard to be friends with, he's just that type of guy, ways willing to talk and a good listener. He isn't so good with animals, I they are small or are naturally trusting then he's fine, but for the most part, his anxiety rubs off on them. The only big animal that properly likes Luigi is Daisy's Yoshi, who's known him since being a hatchling

Also I think Luigi is a medium, so he can see and feel and hear ghosts and other entities, this is probably why he's so good at ghost hunting, he senses them as well as seeing them when they are actually visible to others

He's a smart guy, and Is smart enough to not show how smart he actually is

Thats all I have for now, may make some more soon if in demand, or I feel like it, I really like Luigi okay.. ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

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any beauty and the beast au/parallel with bowser and luigi i just want to remind everyone that Luigi is not from that world so he'd actually be the beast in that context. hes bipedal monster with no shell, able to wriggle in to any place with large whiskers and a nose to sniff out his prey and he speaks in mysterious language (italian) and an ear splitting wail. very scary. legend says theres two of them

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Nah you know what I need.

I need a fanfic of like-

Say Bowser after a fight accidentally goes into the pipe that leads to Brooklyn and Luigi end up finding a tiny bowser and taking him in and everything. Bowser ends up getting a major soft spot for Luigi but still hates Mario (as per usual). Luigi takes Bowser out when he has a job from a client.

After a while, They end up finding another one of the the pipes and Bowser without thinking goes headfirst in and goes back to his world (he feels guilt and lonely after without his precious Luigi) and Luigi, who didn’t see where he went was heartbroken when he couldn’t find his beloved turtle has to go back home after looking for a longgg time.

Bowser has to go back to adjusting as his role as king after being away from his kingdom for a while and being pampered to his hearts content. And Luigi has to get normalized to not having a spiky turtle thing with him at all times and Mario while he’s sad that his brother is, is kinda glad that bowser is gone-

And que Mario and Luigi going into the pipe and ALSO getting teleported to the other world.

Imagine their surprise when they find out the turtle they found is actually a ruthless king of a giant turtle kingdom. Also when they see just how big their tiny turtle actually is-

So Bowser just takes Luigi back to his castle and pampers him and treats him like the queen he is!

And extra points if there are scenes with Luigi being a total mother hen to the koopalings!

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk!

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AU Mario Movie in which Luigi has the gift of giving glimpses into the future through his dreams

Bowser is in his main hall when his guards arrive to inform him of the capture of a human very similar to the new hero of the mushroom kingdom. After their respective presentation, the king tells Luigi that he will use it to lure his brother to him and thus kill him, but Luigi lies and says that this will not happen because his brother hates him and would never come to rescue him.

Upon hearing the lie, the king proclaims that then he does not need the prisoner alive, so he asks Kamek to get rid of him but Luigi makes a small display of his gift in order to stay alive and keep his brother away from this being. (Luigi would have had the vision of this meeting a while ago but he discarded it because of the surreal situation).

Bowser decides to keep the prisoner after seeing its usefulness so he orders Kamek to prepare one of the rooms adjacent to his (just to keep an eye on his new soldier, obviously).

Time passes and the two establish a curious friendship that will progressively escalate until the feelings of love finally emerge.

But then Luigi has another vision, in which a furious Bowser faces off against a fearless Mario who fails to gauge the danger of having the king in a melee battle with no power-ups. Sensing the danger his older brother is in, Lui decides to intercede in the confrontation, thus taking the brunt of the Koopa's attack and thus sealing his fate.

The poor would wake up terrified, crying and lamenting because he knows that once he has witnessed the future there is no way to change it.

Bowser notices a change in the little man's attitude, he has lost his appetite and looks crestfallen and even more miserable than when he first set foot in his castle. So she decides to cheer him up by showing him all the corners of the castle and staying by his side even when it makes him neglect his work of conquest (he likes it a lot to let sadness cloud his pretty eyes).

I suppose this would lead to Luigi at one point telling his dilemma to a Bowser who would consume himself thinking about how to avoid such a fate, but then Luigi would tell him that there is no escaping fate when he has already seen it.

I wanted to write something cute and ended up filling my mind with a harrowing scenario again

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Inspired by this art by @kerrtesy  I wrote a little something about Luigi getting lost in the darklands as a kid. Betaread by my cat btw.

Luigi wasn’t sure how long he has been walking at this point. Or how long it’s been since he woke up with this massive headache  inbetween all those trees.

If only he didn’t fell into that stupid pipe.

He closed the finger of his left hand tighter around his ripped up hat. In his right hand he was holding onto the photo.

Or rather what was left of the photo.

Inbetween his hurting feet he suddenly realized how much hotter it had become. He looked up from the ground to see a giant castle in the middle of a giant lava see.

Maybe he could sleep there! Just for a little. And when his feet would finally stop hurting he could go back to searching a way back home!

No. Who knows what’s in there? Probably something worse then some bats. Anyway, what kind of castle just stands in a lava see in a middle of a dark forest?

No no no. He should keep walking. If he would keep walking, maybe he’s gonna find that pipe again. Or anything to get back home.

- crack -

Luigi turned around, his eyes were scanning everything he could see in the darkness between the trees.

Bones. There were bones assembling themselves into skeletons. Skeletons of what? He couldn’t say. They didn’t look similar to any of the skeletons from his biology books.

More importantly.

The skeletons were moving.

They were moving towards him.

They were chasing him.

Luigi started running. The photo and his hat were pressed to his chest.

Could his 11 year old legs even outrun those things? Who knew for how long skeletons could run.

The bridge was destroyed.

Could he jump? There were parts of the bridge still swimming in the lava. But it was pretty far…

A bony hand touched his back.

He jumped. Almost slipping of the destroyed part of the bridge into the lava he turned around and looked back. With a shivering hand he also put his photo into the inside pockets of his dungarees that became so dirty that his mother would probably scream.

The skeletons stared at him. Glowing eyes Staring into his soul. One of them tilted his head, some others walked backwards.

Did they leave? Maybe! Then he could-

They were jumping after him-

He let out a scream, pulled himself up and jumped. His feet somehow carried him through the castles gate.

Luigi never wanted to fall in to that stupid pipe that brought him here.

If only he would be home.

If only Mario would be with him. His twin always managed to make every situation better for Luigi.

Luigi pished his body against the gates but fleshless hands were still sticking through it and reaching out for him. 

Why was this happening to him? He never wanted to land in some creepy forest with walking skeletons.

 After a felt eternity Luigi somehow managed to close the gates buy pushing his entire bodyweight against them. 

Safe. For now at least, he could still hear them scratching on the other side of the gate. 

Luigi started fidgeting with the broken hat in his hands. What should he do now? And who nows what could be in here! Maybe something worse.

But… He was so tired. And it didn’t look like anyone was right there, so maybe he could just sit down for some minutes. Just until his feet would stop hurting so much.

Yes. He would only need to rest for a few miutes, and then he would surely find a way back home.

Rolled up in a corner, holding on to himself, a ripped of photograph and a broken hat with his initial on it, Luigi did not even notice that he was watched by a group of Shy Guys who were wondering what a child like him was doing in the darklands.

[insirisarts]

I am quite simply saying Luigi canonically says he has bad knees in the Mario Movie.

Is someone else going to create content about disabled Luigi or do I have to do everything myself?

(Broken up into sections for ease of reading.

---Childhood---

---High School---

---Pre-Movie--- (For the record, the other stuff is more generalised and not really movie based)

---Bowuigi---)

---Childhood---

I would imagine (cough project cough cough) that it is something like elhers danlos. I would also say he seems to have some form of balance/co-ordination problems during the scene where he was being led around by the shy guys. Which is me trying to justify giving him post orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.

Anyway, I imagine that Luigi was always a sick kid but never had access to the medical care he needed. I would imagine it would be this mix of financial reasons, him downplaying his symptoms, and his family not taking it seriously. I imagine the only person who would take it seriously when he was younger would have been Mario.

I would say ever since they were little Luigi always appeared to be unathletic compared to other kids. It was not for a lack of trying. After all, Mario is very athletic and Luigi followed his brother everywhere. He followed him to soccer games during break, sports carnivals (do you have that in America??) at school, anything and everything. But it always seemed like he was tired quicker than other kids. Especially as he got older, he seemed to trail further and further behind.

Mario would be worried sick wherever his brother got dizzy and fell over as a kid. As he got older, it would always worry him more and more. It got to the point where eventually he dropped most physical activities aside from teams he had to try out for, because he knew he would get in and Luigi would not. He always felt guilty about this, like he was excluding his brother because, well, he was. But it was better than seeing him collapsing. And he swears, no matter how much everyone around him downplays it, Luigi getting so tired after running around that he 'can't stay awake' and he falls asleep is so not normal.

---High school---

Anyway, fast forward to high school and Luigi is missing a lot of it due to being a sick kid. There is a lot of tension in his house because of it. Luigi had always missed a lot and always been good at catching up, but it was getting especially bad. And worse yet, he would avoid P.E. like the plague. Whenever he had to go, it would leave him in bed for days in agony.

It was looking like he was not going to graduate due to not getting his P.E. credits.

Which is where my ideas get a bit funny, as I do not know how it works in America. Here in Australia, you can drop out in grade 10 if you have a job or apprenticeship.

I would say that in this headcanon/AU, Mario becomes a plumber because it looks like his brother will have no option other than being a tradie. He and his brother plan it out. They look at the options they have available to them and decide being a plumber would be the best. It would be strenuous, of course, but if they work together then Mario can do anything Luigi cannot.

But Luigi is still hesitant. No matter his brother's reassurances that this is what he wants, he cannot help but feel awful that he was the reason his brother plans on dropping out. And worse, their family would never forgive him for it.

Mario really did not care. Honestly, he was not very smart, unlike Luigi. While he was definitely going to graduate, his grades were not really something to write home about. But he was always physically strong, he figured being a tradie was sort of inevitable.

So he hatched a plan to make sure no one would be mad at Luigi for their plan.

One night at dinner he told everyone that he was doing m dropping out to become a plumber. That he had an apprenticeship lined up. After people realised he was serious, they were furious with him. But after weeks of arguing and him refusing to go to school even after being dragged there and him running away (it was for two days, but Luigi had never been more scared the poor boy) his family accepted he was doing this.

Once everyone was sure there was no changing his mind, he revealed that Luigi was going to join him. Luigi was out at a friend's when he told everyone, and he spent the hours they argued about it making sure his family knew he was dragging Luigi down with him and not the other way around.

When it came to speaking with Luigi about it when he got back, thankfully they did not give him too much of a hassle. Aside from gentle and half hearted attempts to change his mind (they knew they could not, he would follow Mario anywhere) he was left alone.

When it came to their apprenticeship and actually working, they made a killer team. Luigi was more than capable, although he never knew his own limits. In fact, he excelled in it, he always managed to figure out what was wrong almost instantly. Mario could never quite wrap his head around how his brother figured it out, since for him it was always a lot of guess work.

But that's what made them such a good team, in Mario's eyes. Obviously he was more than capable of figuring out and fixing the problem on his own, and Luigi was very skilled and capable in manual labour. But he always took a bit of time, and Luigi never knew his own limits and would end up dizzy and in pain.

Mario always knew Luigi's limits. But he always had to toe a careful line, making sure to remind himself that Luigi is not incapable so he did not smother him. Luigi spent his whole life either being expected to do things he can't, or being infantalised and not acknowledged for what he can. Mario always spent a lot of energy finding genuine work related reasons Luigi should not do things like some of the manual labour work or should do things like lay down. It was worth it to see his brother in minimal pain and happy and satisfied with the job he did.

---Pre-Movie---

I would say it is a very interesting thing to explore if a big part of why they left Spike was because Spike refused to accommodate Luigi. Like Mario hated how Luigi would have to mask his symptoms and hated how he would be in so much pain and hated all the times he would see his brother collapse as soon as he got home and be 'unable to stay awake due to being tired'. At that point Mario figured out that was just fainting with a long presyncope, even if Luigi refused to accept it. (A syncope is a faint, a presyncope is the symptoms before a faint. Dizziness, spotty vision, ringing ears. I headcanon Luigi can get presyncopes for hours without actually fainting, because same.)

He especially hated how Spike would talk to Luigi. Mario made it very clear to Spike that he will only work for him if his brother works too, and Spike made it very clear he thought Luigi was useless. Luigi was not useless. He was just forced to be on his feet for far too long. I mean, Mario has no idea what it's actually like, but Luigi had described how his vision would get spotty and his hands would shake and it would be impossible to think.

Not to mention, him refusing to accommodate Luigi not only hurt his brother but made what makes the Super Mario Brothers work not work. Luigi was the brains, he was the brawn, and that dynamic falls apart when the brain can't think due to presyncope. It was actively hurting their ability to do their jobs. Mario was sick and tired of Spike getting in the way of their jobs.

And I have been saying this from Mario's perspective, because I believe that Mario would be the one to take the biggest issue with it. I also believe that Mario would not tell Luigi this was the driving factor behind leaving Spike, because he knew his brother would feel so guilty.

Anyway.

It is 01:30 and I should sleep.

I have so much more to say about this but I should sleep.

If you want more, please ask. Please.

---Bowuigi---

I will just leave this with, as a Bowuigi shipper, I would love to see how this impacts their relationship.

Like imagine an enemies to caretaker senario where, perhaps not in the movieverse but at some point Luigi got a dislocation or fainted during battle. And Bowser saw how worried Mario gets and knew that kidnapping Luigi would really piss him off. So he did.

(I just love Bowser kidnapping Luigi to upset Mario. It is so funny to me. Like he does not harm him, he treats him more like a guest than anything else, but it makes Mario so mad. Bowser finds this hilarious.)

This would not be the first time this happened. I would say this was a semi regular occurrence for the reason I mentioned in brackets above. So Bowser noticed as he personally tended to Luigi's wounds that Luigi was acting really weird.

And Luigi had been hurt before during battle. Actually, hurt way way worse than this. One particularly memorable time he woke up in Bowser's castle after being caught in an explosion. But this felt particularly vulnerable to Luigi, since its because of his disabilities.

Fuck I should sleep. 01:41.

Well. Anyway. Luigi revealed he's disabled. Bowser is ridiculous levels of accommodating to Luigi, you know, his prisoner. Like moves him from (a very nice proper bedroom in) the dungeon to a guest room in the family suite because that is the coolest part of the castle. (Heat + POTS = bad)

And Luigi fell madly in love. Gay gay gay. So gay

And Bowser, who is now getting to know Luigi beyond just being a way he can piss off Mario, becomes quite infactuated with Luigi. Like at first he was genuinely just trying to be accomodating. But the morning after he moved Luigi's room to near his own he got to see Luigi all sleepy and half awake in the morning. He fell hard and fast and trying to be accomodating quickly became an excuse to pamper Luigi a bit.

1:50. Bed time.

[insirisarts]

(This is the idea I'm tornenting friends with on Discord) Imagine Mario and Luigi regularly using the warp pipe between Brooklyn and the Mushroom Kingdom, and no one realizes the path between the two is slowly breaking down until one day, it stops working...

... And Mario and Luigi are on opposite sides

Me: *sits and contemplates what I just read*

...

Oh...Oh that's just....

You are cruel! That is unspeakably cruel 💔