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I will say that if Poppy was a dude the Ian/Poppy ship would have TAKEN OVER tumblr. we’d all be fucking feral for them. I personally am losing my goddamn mind about them all over again now that they’re back in my life. I get a contact high just thinking about the pandemic episode where he breaks lockdown rules to go hug her I MEAN. IS THIS THING ON? HELLO????

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I feel like we're almost in an era of like, reverse queerbaiting. Used to be that you'd be tricked into watching a show because the story implied there'd be gay rep, but now they're using gay rep to trick you into thinking there'll be a story.

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“Hozier is a lesbian” “Hozier is a man written by a woman” “Hozier is like if a man was raised by lesbian mothers” “Hozier is like if a man was a woman” quick give me one reason why a man can’t be soft and gentle and poetic and in love without sounding like a terf or a misogynist

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Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky // Naruto Chapter 402 - Final Words ~ Masashi Kishimoto

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I was talking about the The Promise comic earlier and I'm shocked there's not more Zutara fics based in the Promise timeline. It's ripe for the picking in terms of angst and if people want to play with canon ships while still ending in Zutara well...the comic does provide ample ammo for a breakup fic for K@. Like I'm still thinking about that mixed marriage thing, I gotta fine rhat panel to make sure it's real. Or atleast prove it's real to myself lmao

That tangent aside, the material is there to have Zutara get together. Katara deciding to see what's going on with Zuko that the restoration is going so chaotically. Sees her friend in awful shape and finding empathy with both the earth benders and firebenders want to someone fixed this issue with him. That, and she see plainly sees he's unraveling and surrounding himself by people who either can't fully reach him despite how hard they're trying to(Suki), doesn't care anymore(Mai) and is Ozai.

Some touching on future Ambassador Katara, and perhaps something strong blooming between the Fire Lord and his strongest confident, Master Katara 👀

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i finally started just unfollowing people who reblog antisemitic posts on here but now i have run into an entirely different problem

i'm not seeing any fandom posts about things i like on my dashboard anymore. that's the entire reason i use any social media, i want it back

pretty much the only things on my dashboard now are from other jews and they are understandably mostly just posting about the war and their own experiences with antisemitism

why are my options either "i constantly see people saying they want me and my people dead" or "there is nothing fun on my dashboard"

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Do you have any idea how many animals eat their own kids?

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New pinned post!

Required context and understanding to Jewish thought right now. If you can't read, and comprehend all of these posts in their entirety, just leave already.

Can you pass this Jewish history and culture quiz?

This post about why the war is necessary.

Horseshoe theory

Why Jews are scared: in numbers and some other context

This is not a genocide and other Holocaust inversions.

You are falling for Nazi propaganda part 2

Just *some* of what Jewish people have been experiencing (this has been ongoing for year, but exploded to almost daily since Oct. 7th.)

Will be added to. Not tagging people who wrote them, but I suggest you follow them and learn more.

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They gave all of that extra rage to Bumi.

I just want to say that when I spoke about how adaptations in general (but specifically ATLA) strip rage away from the characters, I was, of course, talking about Katara and Zuko, but I was also talking about Aang. His guilt and shame about running away is wrapped up in the pain and despair at being the literal last airbender,

which can trigger destructive anger

and in relation to how the monks handled the news a hundred years earlier

which is also wrapped up in his struggle with the avatar state, which also acts as a mirror to Zuko's turmoil, which also --

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For all of the holes in the Netflix series, at least they tried to come up with an explanation for how the Fire Nation killed every air nomad on the same exact day, and why they only found human remains at one of the temples.

The funniest part of the atla fandom right now is people complaining about the Netflix show having plot holes like the original nickelodeon version didn't have 654386 arbitrary rules about the avatar state, no explanation why no one in the air nomads knows their parents, and no consistency on how the hell waterbending healing works.

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If I had to guess, they're trying to downplay Aang and Katara's romantic relationship because, well, look at the actors. Personal feelings about the ship aside, the age difference shows.

There were other messages in the episode that are also important: thematically the tale of Oma and Shu itself is a message about people overcoming conflict, coming together and finding peace. And then there's the introduction of the badgermoles as the original earth bending teachers, which is an important call-forward to Toph, who learned how to bend from them.

Wait, so not only is Netflix Avatar trying to condense all of Book One into eight episodes, for some reason it's also squeezing in a Book Two episode (The Cave of Two Lovers) that isn't even about the very thing that episode was originally about (Aang and Katara).

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The amount of leftists saying that the stop antisemitic hate ad is zionist propaganda proves that regardless of saying "zionism isn't judaism", they 100% view the two as the same.

They have literally just told on themselves that they don't believe what they preach.

It's never been about hating zionism. It's always been about having an excuse to be able to hate jews in a socially acceptable way.

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The vast majority of Jews are Pro-Palestinian. The vast majority of Jews want to see Palestinians live in dignity and to have their own state, so long as it's under circumstances that don't wipe out the Israel or lead to another ethnic cleansing of Jews.

Zionism isn't contradictory to this point because Zionism only means that Jews have a right to self-determination in their indigenous land (Theodore Herzl, who is considered the father of modern Zionism, wrote an essay called Utopia that imagined Jews and Arabs living together in peace).

It's not a lie to point out that only a hyper minority of Jews are anti-Zionist (less than 10% of Jews in the United States, the UK and Canada are anti-Zionist, and anti-Zionist Jews are virtually nonexistent outside of those countries, because Jews in the rest of the world don't have the privilege to pretend that they one day won't need to flee to Israel). People like to fixate on that minority to avoid taking responsibility for credible accusations of antisemitism associated with a large parts of anti-Israel activism.

The two groups highlighted above (Jewish Voices for Peace in the top four photos and the Nueteri Karta in the bottom photo) are radical groups that represent a small minority of Jews.

The Nueteri Karta aren't even anti-Zionists, they just believe that the state of Israel shouldn't exist at this moment, because the Messiah needs to be the one to form it (they also believe that when that happens all non-Jews will be exiled from the Kingdom of Israel, so maybe they're not as "pro-Palestinian" as you think).

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Any scifi At:LA fic recs?

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Here’s the thing, I don’t think antis actually think Zutara is a colonizer/colonzied ship. You want to know why I think that? Because they have nothing to say about people shipping Zuko with Jin or Sokka. I think they just want to moralize their hatred rather than just say it’s not for them.

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I don't know how closely you followed the ICJ hearing, but here is what I took away from it:

The argument that South Africa made is simple: a devastating amount of Palestinians have died since Oct. 7, there is no safe place in Gaza, and the reason for that is because Israel wants to commit genocide. They use claims made by Israeli officials, primarily those who are not involved in the war effort (which they admit) to support the genocidal intent claim and they also sprinkled in some blatantly false statements, like the IDF is attacking evacuation routes.

The Israeli defense is that they have done everything they can to minimize civilian casualties and the reason that nowhere is safe in Gaza is because Hamas is attacking from everywhere. Israel only attacks the designated safe zones after there were hundreds of rockets fired from them.

The Israeli team also raised an interesting and important argument: there were other avenues that South Africa could have, and should have, taken before going to the ICJ.

ICJ trials take years. If they were really concerned about an ongoing genocide, there were quicker things they could have done, but they instead opted for a highly publicized, but largely inconsequential course of action.

The reason I say there is no genocide is because I believe the Israeli argument: this is a hideous war, but Hamas said they will do Oct. 7 again and again and again, and refuses to negotiate with Israel on any reasonable terms, so it needs to be fought. The IDF is trying to minimize civilian casualties (and are doing more to try to minimize civilian casualties than anyone in the history of modern warfare).

I know you're not conflating Israelis with their government or the IDF, which I appreciate. Not enough people separate populations from militaries or governments.

I'm not saying Palestinians are collectively responsible for the wrongdoings of Hamas. However, I've never seen anything suggest that Hamas has lost popularity. I'm curious about the places where you've seen that. The links I included in my first post are specifically about polls taken post-Oct. 7. But again, even if these actions are popular, people who are not involved with Hamas are still innocent.

The largest backlashes against Hamas have been Gazans protesting the war, but that is only recent and it is hard to tell how popular that sentiment is. I hope there's something I'm missing.

I'd just like to thank you for showing how hamas is also horrible and not to be combined with the palastinian people. Yes, what Israel is doing is horrible, genocide is horrible. But we shouldn't let hamas continue raping the palastinian women and killing them as well. #freepalastine #israel's government doesn't represent the jewish people

If any of this is off base please let me know

I've been debating whether or not to respond to this comment. I think you mean well, and I hope you can see that I have good intentions too. I appreciate your comment and want you to know that most Jews and Israelis know the difference between Hamas and the Palestinian people as a whole. There is more support for Palestinians in Israel (specifically among Jewish Israelis) than I think most people realize.

Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. The Israeli government does not represent the Jewish people, or the Israeli people at this point in time (one-fifth of which are Palestinians).

But we should be honest: while we should not hold the actions of Hamas against the collective Palestinian people, there is mainstream support for Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank. Similarly, while the majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to retire, he was elected at one point in time (even though strong criticism predates Oct. 7).

You can't have peace without acknowledging these facts.

What is happening in Gaza and the West Bank is tragic and devastating, but it is not genocide. Palestinians have been, and continue to be oppressed in Israel, in the Palestinian Territories (including areas occupied by Israel, and Gaza and parts of the West Bank ruled by the Palestinian Authority), and outside of Israel and Palestine, but it is not genocide. Genocide is a specific crime with a specific definition and not all war is genocide.

Countries that commit genocide don't warn civilians where they will drop bombs in the future. They don't take any steps to preserving life or alleviating the impact of their actions in war, because their goal is to kill as many people as possible. And, I say this with the knowledge that this is of no comfort to the people in Gaza and their families, this has one of the "best" civilian to combatant fatality ratios in modern warfare ("best" in quotation marks because any civilian death is tragic).

I know the point of your message was to highlight that Hamas is mistreating the Palestinian people. I don't want to detract from that statement. Hamas has terrorized Israelis for decades, but no one has suffered more under them than Palestinians. A prime example is the Oct. 7 attack. Not only is it obvious that offensive would start a war that would devastate Palestinians, Hamas wants to have its own people to be killed, because martyrs further their cause (that's also why they have been torturing and murdering civilians in Gaza, preventing evacuations and positioned their weapons to cause as many casualties as possible).

The fact that Hamas still has a lot of support amongst the Palestinian people is itself an indication of both ideology, but also how bad conditions were for Palestinians lived under prior to this war (although support in Gaza is dropping).

The reason I feel the need to correct the "genocide" remark is that, presently, Israel is the only country on Earth fighting Hamas. Hamas took control over Gaza through force and will only be removed through force. And Israel is not disappearing, so if Hamas is to be defeated and eradicated, Israel is going to, inevitably, be involved.

The claims of genocide are not only factually inaccurate, but it is used as a justification to stop this war, which would only help Hamas and prolong this horrible conflict.

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I can't believe I have to fucking say this but DO NOT TELL PEOPLE TO KILL THEMSELVES. Don't do it in general, not in person, not online, and not in the comments or reblog of my posts.

If I see this, I will report you. I don't care who you are or what your argument is. If you tell someone to kill themselves, or wish upon them violence of any kind, you are getting reported.

It's fucking tumblr, get over yourselves.

I don't check my comment sections or reblogs regularly (or even that closely), so if anyone sees this happens with my posts, please let me know.