#and like i say: brf slt

[maddy-ferguson]

mike's situation as a queer guy with conservative parents who like reagan in the 80s not being that worrying or that bad for him because "he's most likely cis" is the weirdest strangest maybe worst take i've ever encountered on here

[maddy-ferguson]

just remembered there's people who don't even want mike and will to fight in s5 you guys are BORING!!!!

[maddy-ferguson]

someone tweeted this FIVE MINUTE compilation to show that will being gay shouldn't come as a surprise😭

[maddy-ferguson]

remember when mlvns were like omg when mike sees el with that collar...he'll KILL brenner actually he's gonna be sooo mad and then will was the one who tried to take it off

[maddy-ferguson]

mike bringing el those soggy eggos with no knife no fork no nothing is peak comedy to me

[maddy-ferguson]

i don't care about will not being given an opportunity to show romantic interest in anyone other than mike but what i want what i crave is him talking to people that aren't mike jonathan and joyce. and el after s4 even though i would also love for el and will's relationship to be explored more so that's a paradox. do max and will even know each other. did dustin and lucas miss him when he was in california like...friends what what friends

[maddy-ferguson]

we're free of the straightest guy ever playing a gay character jokes who else cheered

[maddy-ferguson]

"who has more internalized homophobia, mike or will?" and it turns out it was bylers all along<3

[maddy-ferguson]

thinking about "whenever chuck's around i just feel like a weak little girl" vs "when we're together it's great i feel strong and safe" again🚬🚬

[maddy-ferguson]

a thread by twitter user @tugunl about life in palestine i thought i would translate and share. it was posted in august, so "before october 7th". most of the pictures are screenshots of videos i couldn't include, i linked them at the start of each relevant paragraph. op was told that he shouldn't defend palestine and didn't know what he was talking about because he didn't live there. what he reported after spending over a month in palestine:

A few months ago, this person criticized me for defending Palestine without even having lived there. And it was true. So I went to live there. After spending more than a month there, here is the reality of Palestinian daily life:

First, this individual claimed that "Israelis have no right to go to Arab territories". This is completely untrue. Here is an example of an Israeli colony, established in the Palestinian Territory. There are several others. You can see Israeli settlers walking peacefully in Palestinian Territories. There are now several hundred thousand living there.

Another example of a colony: In Hebron, Israelis live in the city center, right above Palestinians. But of course, you wouldn't want them to mix and live together: they put barbed wire to separate them. Above, Israelis, below, Palestinians.

Pictured here are stones thrown by Israeli settlers at Palestinians.

What's most telling in Palestine: cemeteries. This one opened in 2021, it is already full. In just two years, the cemetery was filled, including with a lot of children.

The reality is Palestinians live in an open-air prison. They are surrounded by these walls, which lock them into territories reserved for them. More than 700 kilometers of walls. So no, Palestinians cannot "freely travel to Israel".

They cannot even go to Jerusalem, unless they have a permit, which is difficult to obtain. Because yes, if you go to Jerusalem as a Palestinian without authorization, you will be arrested at this kind of military checkpoint. God only knows what happens next.

These military checkpoints allow Israelis to control traffic in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the border between Israel and Palestine: All it takes is for one soldier to decide to close the barrier for everyone to be blocked. Thus, any Israeli soldier is superior to any Palestinian authority. All it takes is for the soldier to lower the barrier to trap the president of the Palestinian Authority behind this barrier. There are over 650 checkpoints of this kind.

Another thing you should know: Israel operates under a system of collective punishment. An attack committed against Tel Aviv? All roads in Palestine will be blocked to punish the population.

Palestinians obviously don't have the right to use roads reserved for Israelis. How can the military tell them apart? Thanks to their license plate. Israelis have a yellow plate, Palestinians have a white plate. An example of the disastrous consequences of the ban on Palestinian circulation: At a school, a young girl required medical attention. The ambulance had to wait 5 hours, the time needed to obtain Israeli authorization to travel on their roads.

Because of these restrictions, a journey that would take 15 minutes to complete if you were Israeli takes an hour if you are Palestinian.

Colonies under construction. Guess who builds them? Palestinians. Of course, because it costs a lot less to employ Palestinians.

I infiltrated a colony. Settlers live very well there. Real estate is cheap since land is free (stolen by the state). It's very green, water is used for the grass and the plants there. In Palestinian territories, I didn't have water 4 days out of 7. Because yes, Israel monopolizes 83% of water resources and leaves only 17% to Palestinians, which of course is far from being enough.

On the left, Tel Be'er Sheba, ghetto for Palestinians. Less than 1km from Omer. One of the poorest villages. On the right, Omer, 3rd best village to live in in Israel, also one of the richest villages (reserved for Israelis obviously).

By the way, this is where the waste of Israeli settlers in the North ends up: in this river, which flows to the Palestinians in the South.

This is an example of Palestinian (in this case, Bedouin) habitat destroyed by settlers. These destructions number in the thousands. Palestinians are losing their homes, which are then replaced by Israeli settlements.

Israel implements a legal regime that makes settlers superior to Palestinians. So a Palestinian is considered an adult at 14 years old while an Israeli settler is considered an adult at 18. A 14-year-old Palestinian who commits a crime will face the punishment of an adult.

Here, near Al-Khalil (Hebron), 7-year-old Ryan Sliman died of a heart attack after being frightened by Israeli settlers who chased him.

Palestinians are losing their lives in this fight for freedom and dignity. This Palestinian marked his flag with his blood before giving it his life.

Bonus: if you're foreign and transiting through Israel, be aware that this country uses racial profiling to determine wether or not you're a threat to them. If you have a foreign-sounding first name, especially from Middle-Eastern and North African countries, or if you have a beard that makes you look too Muslim for them, you will undergo very thorough checks at the airport and a very long interrogation with sometimes personal questions, as well as a search of your electronic devices and of your luggage. I personally underwent an hour-long interrogation, with numerous questions, including:

Are you Muslim?

Why do you have a beard?

Where do you come from? What are your parents' first names?

Why do you have a visa from Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates?

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Also note that the cost of living in Palestine is quite expensive, due in part to taxation. The products are doubly taxed: first by the settler state, Israel, but also by the Palestinian Authority.

You should also know that I have met Israelis who are formally anti-Zionist but who only have Israeli nationality and therefore cannot move to another country even though they wish to emigrate. I am not at all saying that this is the opinion of the majority of Israeli people, but I mean that not everyone is Zionist. Hence the importance of distinguishing them.

Last tweet added to the thread on October 18th:

Note: Currently, new large-scale clashes are occurring in the Gaza Strip, causing the deaths of many Palestinian civilians. This thread was written two months ago, well before these events. If the media today try to manipulate information, particularly in favor of an Israeli state that supposedly has “the right to defend itself”, what you see in the tweets above is the reality on the ground. Palestinians experience this all year round, from birth to death. The current context only reinforces all the horrors they are experiencing.

[maddy-ferguson]

people need to stop using wlw and mlm as synonyms for lesbian and gay because why did i just see someone say shipping mlm x wlw is problematic...haven't you heard of nick nelson bi people are real

[maddy-ferguson]

i enjoy discourse when it's just me talking to people who agree with me

[maddy-ferguson]

i think it's so great that the comment section of someone who came out less than two weeks ago was flooded with so much girly pops and nail polish emojis that he just deleted the tiktok. i love ironic homophobia. very refreshing and has never made anyone uncomfortable ever

[maddy-ferguson]

people on twitter falling to their knees because celebrities are posting pro-israel insta stories how old are you that this matters to you

[maddy-ferguson]

people talk about season five like it's a 90 minute movie "there's never gonna be enough time to cover all this :(" and you know this how exactly

[maddy-ferguson]

my #1 request for season 5 that is actually a demand and possibly even a biological need at this point is that they tone down the humor. i know they're on strike and they'd been writing for nine months before that so it may very well be too late but i need someone to get this message to the writers please i will literally die if they're ever unfunny again.