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Love Like the Galaxy text posts, 1/1

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How is this so fitting omdays

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This is now a Leo Wu fan page, just as an FYI to everyone 🤗

But fr I've recently gotten into CDrama's, and the absolutely love I have for Love Like The Galaxy is unreal. I want to marry both Zhao Lusi and Leo Wu, I would be the happiest third of a throuple ever.

My current favourite are;

1. Love Like The Galaxy

2. The Double

3. The Prisoner of Beauty

4. Hidden Love

5. Blossom

6. Flourished Peony

7. Si Jin

(Mostly in no particular order )

But if anyone has any recommendations for me please please give me more. I am obsessed.

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An exciting update, I am week 8 into learning Māori, something so invigorating about learning my people's language, playing a part in taking back what was stolen from my mother and grandmother.

Hoziers "Butchered Tongue" hits so hard.

I should speak Te Reo as fluently as english.

My mothers first language should have been Te Reo.

My Nan and koro should not have had their language beaten from them as children.

I mourn something that was taken from me generations ago, something my mother mourns, and my grandmothers before her.

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When I get started, I am deep in my writing. The problem is convincing my brain that it likes the process because she does not want to co-operate.

Except for when I am about to sleep or nowhere near my laptop, notebook, or phone. Then suddenly the ideas come pouring in and I am telling friends or family - when we get home can you just say [insert random word or phrase] that I believe will jump-start my memory and my motivation to write.

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do not forget about reservations.

do not forget about the people on reservations.

when you are making and reading posts about dire predictions for quality of life, do not forget about reservations.

we already have issues accessing clean water. we already experience devastation from climate change. we are already going missing for our race. we are already being murdered for our culture.

it will only get worse.

it’s possible to live through. every single person indigenous to north america has a chance to live through this. i’m not trying to fear monger; i’m trying to remind you.

please do not forget about us when you assure people that “everything will be okay; people are living under far worse circumstances in other countries”.

people are living under far worse circumstances here. and it can get worse. and it will get worse. and we need you to remember that we’re here when it happens.

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alright y'all serious post this time With the election over and Trump put back into a position of power, I think it's time to speak out about this. On Thursday, November 18th, the New Zealand government will present the Treaty Principle Bill to parliament. A national hikoi (walk or march, kind of like a protest) with also take place that same day to protest said bill. Why, you may ask? If the Bill remained on the statute book for a considerable time or was never repealed, it could mean the end of the Treaty. Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the treaty of waitangi) is a historical bill that essentially started the relationship between Maori and the British Empire. I probably can't explain it in a better way, so I implore you to look it up and do your own research. Te Tiriti is an essential part of New Zealand. Te Tiriti is essentially Maori's right to exist. "We found that if this Bill were to be enacted, it would be the worst, most comprehensive breach of the Te Tiriti in modern times,"* - One News (NZ) The Waitangi Tribunal alerted lawyers to the development today, and has released the second part of its interim report into the Treaty Principles Bill to ensure it can be received by parties prior to the Bill being introduced to the House.* This is bad. I know that there's a lot of panic going around with Trump and the election, but there are still other countries suffering, too. New Zealand is my homeland, and if Te Tiriti was taken away, it could mean that I wouldn't have rights anymore. Please, do your own research into this. Spread the word. Raise awareness. For my people. Please. * - sited from the one news report (link) I don't want to have to tag anyone, but if you see this, please reblog it. You don't have to, but it would be appreciated if you did.

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I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.

check on your Māori friends, e hoa mā. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.

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Making a chain cause why not!? Hdisiwisjs

Put your name/nickname in the Character Headcanon Generator and see what you get!

Link!

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@starsinthenigth @mxnaceo @duckp0t + Anyone who wants to do it! (No pressure)

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A little update: apparently, Sydney isn't even Kanaka Maoli. she's wasian who happens to be from Hawaii. And I need to be taken so immensely serious when I say fuck Sydney and fuck Disney.

I already thought it was dog shit that you cast a white skinned hawaiian to play a canonically dark skinned hawaiian woman, of whoms skin colour and unrepentant indigenousness was clear in every feature of her face and her existence as a dark skinned indigenous woman was one of many key factors that shaped and affected her life. I already thought disney fucked up by casting her and I thought Sydney fucked up by accepting it as a white Kanaka Maoli. But you aren't even Kanaka Maoli? You're wasian?

The amount of disgust I feel.... you should be genuinely ashamed of yourself.

Yo its wild how people are justifiable calling out the colourism in the casting of Nani, by then trying to imposing the colonisers tool of blood quantum on Sydney and saying her being a 1/4 hawaiian means she isnt hawaiian enough. F*ck off with that shit. Among indigenous peoples, blood quantum was used as a tool to "breed" out the native population, a form of genocide to eradicate and assimilate.

For Maori, it doesnt matter if you are a blonde, blue eyed white girl, if you know your whakapapa, if you know where your people came from, where your land is. Your Maori.

I genuinely believe Sydney should step back from this role and push for a darker skinned Native Hawaiian to take the role, because Nani's existence as a dark skinned Hawaiian with features that are unequivocally native, played an integral part of how she lived and experienced life through the lens of colourism and how that colourism made her life harder. Darker skinned indigenous women are more likely to get there kids taken away by social services, are more likely to have reports made against that by "do good" neighbours, find it harder to get and keep jobs and then add being the single parent of a child and that becomes even harder.

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I'm not as active on here as I am on other platforms like twitter. But I want this on my page so no one gets confused.

I am staunchly pro-palestine.

I believe israel is actively committing genocide with the intent to completely flatten Gaza.

I do not believe that Israels actions are justified or that they are in any way "defending" themselves because of the actions that occurred on Oct 7th.

Because it didn't happen in a vaccum.

Palestine has been under brutal occupation since long before Oct 7th, 2023. Israel want this to be their 911, so they can justify the brutality they are unleashing upon the densely packed CIVILIAN population of Gaza.

An occupier cannot "defend" itself against the actions of those they occupy.

We are watching genocide and colonisation happen right in front of us. As a Maori woman, an indigenous woman whose ancestors faced the same type of brutal colonisation, the same type of dehumanisation, the expulsion from their homes and land, I stand firmly against Israel, and too be silent is too cosign the message Israel is sending.

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I want to add that 40% of the Gaza population are children, and the average age of Gaza is only 18. 2.2 million people live in Gaza, Gaza, which has become an open-air prison for Palestinians.

Hamas, of whom actions I don't condone, are a symptom of Israels apartheid of the Palestinian people, a direct result of the inhumane treatment Palestinians face at the hands of the Israeli Government and the IDF. Such treatment will only breed equal extremism. However, while both are horrific in action and rhetoric, Israels actions are cosigned by powerful allies who turn a blind eye to the war crimes they commit against a people and land who have no airforce, army or navy.

To cry Free Israel at the death of innocent Israeli citizens but remain wilfully ignorant of the decades of perpetuating atrocities commited against the Palestinians is to clearly say you deem certain people are worthy of life and freedom over others simply for race and religion.

From the Land to the Sea

Palestine will be free.