#22 april 2024

[northgazaupdates]

22 April 2024

Multiple sources throughout north Gaza are reporting a massive aerial bombing campaign by the IOF across the entire northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya, etc.. Alerts are coming in faster than I can process them, but I will try to repost a few. In the mean time, please follow the sources cited on this blog to stay up-to-date.

[brian-in-finance]

An emotional goodbye! Caitríona Balfe on filming final season of Outlander

After ten years on air, the final season of Outlander is nearly upon us.

The historical drama starring Sam Heughan and our very own Caitríona Balfe has had a brilliant run but the next season will be its last.

The group are in the middle of filming at the moment, and it’s an emotional time for the cast and crew.

Speaking to VIP Magazine on the IFTA red carpet, Caitríona said, “It’s a strange thing to be at the end, but still have five months to go with filming.

“We had our first read through about a month ago. We all got a bit choked up because we’ve been together for over ten years and for better or worse, we’re totally a family. We’ve all grown up together on that show. We’ll be so sad to say goodbye to it.”

Picture: Brian McEvoy

And while we’re all desperate to know how the show will wrap up, Caitríona admits the details are being kept under lock and key, even from those on set.

“I don’t even know what’s happening in the end, they’re keeping it very top secret,” she said.

“What we do know though is that you can never please everybody but we all just hope that they [the writers] make what they believe is the best version and we have to hope people aren’t too upset.

“But they’re going to get a prequel so the audience will forget about us very quickly,” she adds.

Filming is due to wrap by the end of summer, and Caitríona already knows how she’ll be spending her downtime: “There’s going to be a holiday for sure! I’ll be straight on a plane to somewhere with a beach with a drink in my hand.” Rightly so!

VIP Magazine

Remember… I don’t even know what’s happening in the end, they’re keeping it very top secret. — Caitríona Balfe

[luna-deactivated]

there are sooo many valid criticisms concerning the whole watcher situation, even in light of their response, but i find it suspicious that everyone's dogpiling steven lim and making it sound like he and ryan held shane at gunpoint and forced him to make that original video announcing streamer as if he isn't a grown adult capable of making his own decisions. i keep seeing all these "shane "eat the rich" madej would NEVER approve this" comments across platforms and it's like. guys. he's literally RIGHT THERE. he's in the original video asking us to give him our money just like steven and ryan. it just feels super icky, like "look at what these evil asian men are forcing our precious White Boy of the Decade to do" type of rhetoric

[sunshineandlyrics]

🎾 The kid is lucky. Playing Rafa on clay has got to be on the bucket list of every tennis player x

[forged-in-kaoss]

Episode 110 vs episode 1100

[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Metagross

[oediex]

Loving animals is a privilege. To see the richness and beauty of their lives. It's in every cat sitting on a windowsill. It's every dog that people are walking. It's also the flies that lose their way in my apartment. It's the spiders that used to scare me. It's the hope-you're-safe I sent towards the rat I saw crossing the road. It's happy cows and pigs and chickens. It's all the animals that I know I'll never see, but that do exist in all their splendidness. All these individuals, all these lives, all these minds.

Loving animals is also hard. It's seeing their dead bodies plastered on billboards. On people's plates. In the butcher's window just around the corner. It's 90% of the grocery store I refuse to buy. It's knowing there is a street in my town where in one building they're saving animals deemed worth saving, and in the one next door their throats get slit. It's animal abuse that only counts when it's an animal we think is cute. It's fish not even getting the respect of being counted as individuals. Loving animals means living in a world full of murder. A reality so inescapable the only safe space is my own house. And the people I love are all complicit.

[miyrumiyru]

Black butterfly, Red flowers🖤❤️

Love their orange half moon shaped spots so much (♡ㅅ♡)

(M) Long tail spangle - Spring adults (Papilio macilentus)

영산홍 (Rhododendron indicum)

[ralfmaximus]

They fixed Voyager!

[warmglowofsurvival]

[ldshadowdoodles]

[151] A Lie on the Wind, Perhaps?

-🌷

[northgazaupdates]

22 April 2024

Journalist Hossam Shabat reports another invasion by the IOF in Beit Hanoun. They are invading with armored vehicles and soldiers, shelling and shooting anything in their path. They had besieged the area a few days ago and committed numerous atrocities against the residents. It seems the IOF are determined to keep residents from coming back to their homes in Beit Hanoun.

[brian-in-finance]

Received 10:08 p.m. BST Saturday

Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃

We’ve seen photos of Caitríona with her nephews and nieces and her friends’ children, as well as photos and video of her with Outlander’s child actors. She looks like she genuinely enjoys the company of children, and I imagine her wee lad benefits from her nature.

Received 7:29 p.m. BST Sunday

Thanks for your message, Anon. You’re a cheeky one. 😂

Gif: World Buzz Hub

Remember the premature celebration? 😉

Received 8:24 p.m. BST Saturday

Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃

No, she was not alone. And anyone who read my blog Sunday evening would have seen a screenshot of her husband had Mr All Thumbs better control of his phone while watching the IFTA red carpet activities on TikTok. When I attempted to take a shot of his walking into the Royal Convention Centre shortly before 6 p.m., my fingers failed me, and instead of getting a screenshot, I closed my phone screen. #HowEmbarrassing

Here’s part of a DM conversation (BIF is white-type-on-black; BIF’s pal is black-type-on-blue.):

(I had been cursing at the inane-to-me questions and comments from the TikTok hosts. 🙈)

So, some of us knew Tony was there. Aside from having nothing visual to share…

… we Orcs were far too busy making plans to meet at LandCon7 to be posting sans proof. 🎪 Like everyone else, we waited for kind souls in Ireland with access to RTÉ’s streaming the IFTAs Monday evening to provide visuals… or…

Instagram

Remember… don’t talk too much or too soon. — Bear Bryant

[royalarchivist]

[monster-every-day]

day 113 - 4/22/24 - the flower must survive

Happy Earth Day!

Yup! It's Earth Day! That's The Date That Is Today!

I'm really happy with this one. This thing was the reason I haven't posted any creatures in a long time - I needed an Earth Day creature, because that's what day today is! And I'm quite happy with it :D Happy Earth Day!

[cordeliawhohung]

People are so fucking outrageous you take some time for yourself that you told us you were taking and now they're up in your asks demanding stuff tell them to pay you for it, sincerely someone who doesn't mind waiting for whatever you post

on god i literally spent the last few days driving hours on end and just got back yesterday, today is my first full day back home. and i've been traveling out of town for the outreach clinic i have to work at the next few weeks, and even then i've still been writing allskdjf

lmfao i don't want to shit on that anon too much, and i'm def not trying to be rude or anything, but i'm also going to hijack your ask real quick to address stuff since i do have quite a few new followers.

while some users might not mind questions regarding when someone is updating/if they have anything planned for an ongoing series, and things like that, i specifically have it in my rules to please not do that, which is why i got a little short with them even though they arguably weren't being rude or malicious (unlike a few anons in the past have when asking things like that). this one is especially annoying because it's been literally eight days since i last updated for that, and i have other series i've been working on! like even though i'm not posting for it, i've still written a couple thousand words for pet!au, and i just finished a chapter for in limbo i'll have up for early access here in a bit, and then on tumblr probably tomorrow or wednesday.

but mostly, the reason why i specifically request that people don't ask if i have plans/when i'm updating/if i'm updating something is because i literally have an irl life. i've been pretty open recently about how i've been traveling and the work i've been doing, it's not a secret or anything lmao. it just feels... tone deaf, you know? like you come into my inbox not talking about the work, or what you like about it, or otherwise engaging with it, but just to ask if i'm giving you more, like i didn't just do that a week ago. hell, even if it's been months or years that's still rude imo because if you like something enough, then you'd probably be doing more than just asking for more, ya know? at least that's how it comes across to me. and like i said before, some people really don't care, which is why i made sure to specify it in my rules, because i do care. it ruins my mood to write and create because then it feels like a chore and people are waiting on me just to consume it and then beg for more rather than tell me what they actually enjoyed about the work lmao.

anyway, no hard feelings against that anon at all, i'm sure they didn't mean anything by it, so please don't show them any hate or anything. but just use this as a reminder to read the rules of the blogs you interact with please. or at least don't be surprised when you do something that irks them and then they're annoyed at you because of it lmao.

sorry about the rant in the tags