#HOLY SHIT everything is happening today

[beepbeepdespair]

GOD i wish i had the power and/or contacts to get people performance roles. there's a busker out today and she is one of the best fucking singers i have ever heard i'm not joking. she did i will always love you and i cried in a shop bc it was so beautiful. someone needs to put her in their musical right now

[stormxpadme]

Me @ the beginning today's ep: Cool, cool, the fucking annoying love triangle again, no wait the fucking TWO love triangles. Well, let's hope that's not the most interesting thing happening today.

Me @ the ending of today's episode with like half the cast dead and Genosha burning: Can I see the love triangles again?

[scare-ard--sleigh]

ohhhhhhhhhh my goddddddddd and now the fucking t*ble t*nnis guy is passive aggressively up my ass : \

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: April 15

"Something in the Way She Moves" by James Taylor

[codthefishgod]

Me: listening to music

Breakup song: exists

Me: about to hit skip

My hyperfixation riddled brain that can't let anything exist without making it into a reference about my favourite things: What if it was about your favourite ship

Me: ...you motherfucker.

[getinthehandbasket]

Ahem

I AM WRITING AGAIN!

Thank you for your attention.

[thethingything]

we're back home now and oh boy today has been one hell of a ride. quick summary:

the doctors and nurses we saw were amazing. I don't think we've ever felt so listened to by medical staff before

we were given a whole bunch of tests and we'll probably be given more later

we didn't get a diagnosis today but one doctor says he thinks he knows what's wrong, and he suspects it's a rare autoimmune disorder, and explained why they need to do more tests

there was one nurse who was absolutely amazing at handling us panicing because of our medical trauma. shoutout to that nurse because holy shit

on the one hand all of this feels incredible and it's a huge relief to have doctors trying to do as much as they can to figure out what's wrong as quickly as possible, and on the other hand it is so deeply distressing to know this has been possible all along when we've spent years struggling to even be taken seriously with our other conditions

we have to go back for results on Friday and if a specific test comes back positive we may have to be admitted to hospital and... yeah judging by the amount of panic attacks 🍬's had today I don't think that'd go well in the slightest

we are fucking exhausted. we are in so much pain. the entire experience was so unbelievably triggering to the point of us finding new triggers we didn't realise we had. we haven't eaten all day because we didn't expect to be outside for so long. turns out 🍬 specifically can't really handle being in any kind of situation that requires medical tests or treatment so he's just really not having a good time.

on the plus side if it turns out we do have this autoimmune disease that the doctor thinks we might have, it would explain basically every issue we've had with this mystery illness for the last 9 months, and it's at least treatable. the downside is that it's rare as fuck so I doubt many doctors have heard of it and it's probably a fucking miracle this guy knew about it

[iero]

Family update: My Gram who was in the hospital, and the reason I had to come home so quickly, is feeling so much better now and she gets released tomorrow from the hospital. Thank you guys for all the well wishes during a not-so-fun week! <3

[rillette]

so what happens in the eaglnheart and gerad run. Also what's the gerad halcarol dynamic

hiiii lolipop, havent seen u in my askbox in a bit!! welcome back ^_^ going to put this under a cut bc it got kind of long and also i decided to add panels so it got even longer teehee

englehart's run is abysmal because he wrote a lot of his own problems issues into the story (its very oversexualized) and he's the one that introduced that gross fucking arisia plotline may he rot in hell for that.

Gerards run has hal as like the precursor to geoff's hal, where he's very. he's written to be the leader type where he hates taking orders from people and he wants to do his own thing and shit which is fine, but like hal is notoriously a yes-man. i love him to bits but he would fall for an mlm scam. theres textual evidence even

so, since that underlying yes-man tendency isn't addressed his character "growth" into a leader type role feels very hollow and forced.

he's also written as a stereotypical man's man, where he's you know what i think he's just the writers self insert probably. like they keep bringing up how many chicks he pulls and how he's great with women and then he keeps being misogynistic and its like hold on. where did the hal that got mad at carol's dad for being a capital m misogynist go. that's not hal.

I think that gerad's run has some great plot ideas, like with mosaic and entropy, but the writing doesn't hold up and his hal characterization is shit. also they keep using that nickname for tom and it makes me mad

the gerard halcarol dynamic strips carol of all her agency as a cold motherfucker. i love carol for who she is; a ruthless bitch! and the carol in gerards run is very. hold on let me find the panel that made me mad.

this is so. carol would never say this shit with a straight face. i can really only see carol saying this in a mean way like if she was actively trying to put hal down. carol is ruthless and capable and wayyyy more of a leader than hal is. i realize i keep saying that carol is mean but i mean this in like the best way possible she IS mean it's part of her character and it's part of what allows her to be such a successful businesswoman. she is cold and bitter and she uses that as a self-defense mechanism she is not the type of person to get sad and angsty about sitting around waiting to see if hal is okay Gerard.

i want to talk about the halcarol dynamic while im here. hal and carol work best as best friends. they are deeply deeply important to each other and i think their romantic relationship is important to both of their character growths but part of that growth is them breaking up and staying just friends.

i think that hal and carol see something in each other that they both desperately want to have for themselves. for carol i think she wants the freedom that hal has to just fuck off into the sunset and have adventures without the pressures that come from her dad and from running ferris. for hal, well. 🏳️‍⚧️. i think that hal truly does love carol but he's also in love with the idea of carol, the strong and collected buissness woman.

I think that hal and carol's relationship is them trying to fill that void inside of themselves. but their romantic relationship is doomed to fail because you can't ever truly love your reflection in the mirror.

[exopelagic]

I finally understand the humidity -- hair thing oh my god what is this

[mymp3]

holy shit ppl srsly got spiked at twitchcon??? twitch needs to get their shit together like right now this is not acceptable in the slightest.

[mugirmu]

ive heard of lots of people having frequent crash issues when playing dragon age origins on pc, but ive been lucky... 3rd crash ever was just now in the battle of denerim 😭😭😭 its no big deal because im a frequent saver, not even at the archdemon yet either, but RIP my immersion HSKDBSBDKS

[roachemoji]

[dandyshucks-moving]

that F/O really CAN get you through the horrors huh !!

[kittyprincessofcats]

ICJ Ruling

Okay, let's get into this.

First of all, I get the frustration at the court not ordering a ceasefire. I was disappointed and frustrated at first too, since a ceasefire was the biggest and most important preliminary measure South Africa was requesting - and of course we just all want this horror to finally end for the people in Gaza. So I get the frustration and disappointment, I really do.

However, I do think this ruling is still a major win for South Africa, Palestine, and international law as a whole and here's why:

The court acknowledged that it has jurisdiction over this case and completely dismissed Israel's request to throw out the case as a whole. It will now determine at the merits stage (that will probably take years) whether Israel is actually commiting genocide.

The court acknowledged that Palestinians are a "distinct national or ethnic group and therefore deserving of protection under the genocide convention". Pull this out next time someone tells you "there's no such thing as Palestinians, they're all just Arabs".

The court acknowledged very unambiguously that "at least some" of Israel's actions being genocidal in nature is "plausible". South Africa has a case, officially. Israel is accused of genocide, in a way the ICJ deems "plausible", officially. This is huge. (And seriously, how freaking satisfying was it to hear all of those genocidal statements by Israeli politicians read out loud and used as justification for this rulling?)

The court might not have ordered a "ceasefire" in those words, but they did order Israel to "immediately end all genocidal acts" (which includes killing and injuring Palestinians) and submit proof that they actually did. How are they going to comply with this ruling without at least severly reducing or changing what they're doing in Gaza?

In fact, this wording might actually be more appropriate for a genocide (vs a war), as author and journalist Ali Abunimah notes on Twitter:

He's completely right. Israel lost today, by overwhelming majority (I mean, 15 to 2? I heard people predict the rulings would be very close, like 9 judges vs 8, but instead we got 15 to 2 (and even 16 to 1 on the humanitarian aid). Holy shit.) The court disimissed almost everything Israel's side of lawyers said, while acknowledging that South Africa's accusations are "plausible".

And this is important especially because of Mr Abunimah's second tweet there^. Because the question is, where do we go from here?

This ruling means that Israel is officially /possibly/ commiting genocide and that should have huge international consequences. The rest of the world now HAS to take these accusations seriously and stop arming and supporting Israel - and if they won't do it on their own, we, the people, have to make them. This is THE moment to rise up all around the world, especially in the countries most supportive of Israel (the US, the UK, Germany): Protest, call your representatives and demand a ceasefire and an end of arms deliveries to Israel.

We now have a legal case to back our demands: If Israel is, according to the ICJ, "plausibly" commiting genocide, then all of our governments are, according to the ICJ, "plausibly" guiltly of aiding in genocide. And we need to hold that over their heads and demand better. We need to do that right now and in huge numbers. Most politicians only care about themselves and saving their skin. We have to make them realize that they could be accused of aiding in genocide.

(As a German, I'm thinking of Germany here in particular: After South Africa's hearing, our government dismissed their case as having "no basis" - how are they going to keep saying that now that the ICJ officially thinks otherwise? Over the last months, people here have been arrested at protests for calling what's happening in Gaza a genocide. How are the police supposed to legally keep doing that now that the ICJ has officially deemed this accusation "plausible"? I used to be scared to use the word "genocide" at protests or write it on my protest signs - not anymore, have fun trying to arrest me for that when the ICJ literally has my back on this one 🖕🏻.)

So yeah - don't be defeatist about this, don't let Israel's narrative that they "won" (they didn't) take over. This might not be everything we wanted, but it's still a good result. Don't let what the court didn't say ("ceasefire"), distract you from the very important things that they did say. Let this be your motivation to get loud and active, especially if you live in any country that supports Israel. Put pressure on your governments to not be complicit in genocide, you now officially have the highest international court on your side.

[ozlices]

i wish i could be like "people with victim complexes dni" because at this point it's just infuriating how often we gotta deal with that kinda shit when we bust our ass to remain polite and civil as we're actively invalidated and treated like shit while we're openly unstable and dealing with the darkest year of our life. needless headache, man.