#i found my old account too

[sirpiglin]

HEYYYYY GUESS WHOS BACK LMAO

so I just learned several things:

1. Links work on desktop (including password reset links LMAOOOO)

2. Desktop is formatted significantly better than mobile

3. You can make side blogs. Like they’re not just alt accounts that you make, they’re a real thing, apparently????

[10bendog]

Happy 25th Anniversary, Powerpuff Girls!!!

💙❤️💚

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

I FOUND MY OLD WATTPAD ACCOUT!?? OH MY GOD??

[nebulouscoffee]

being into sci fi 🤝 being into music: absolutely no escaping the "oh you like ---?? For real?? NAME FIVE ---- THEN BET YOU CANT LOL" crowd

[silverslipstream]

a wise bloke once said, or maybe he didn't, etc.

The best thing about having the same Google Drive since 2014 is being able to read all your old stories.

The worst thing about having the same Google Drive since 2014 is being able to read all your old stories.

[karvakera]

random oc doodles I have that no one asked for 😼

[thetriangletattoo]

what do I do when someone asks to show my art and I only have fandom art like one single fandom art

[coffeeastronaut]

the shitscript is in fact a a a shitscript but crowley and aziraphale's 6000 years of crowley cheating at checkers every time and aziraphale never wins is seriously so insanely funny. like.

aziraphale is not at all stupid, let alone enough for crowley's literal "whats that outside!!!! [snatches his pieces]" but the fact that he KNOWS hes been cheating this whole time and has been LETTING him is so fucking funny.

not for the reason the script gives (something something its aziraphale's lame moral lesson that even he knows is stupid, but only after an 11 year old points it out to him) but for the reason ive invented in my mind, which is that this is yet another example of their looserman weirdo foreplay

[baby-xemnas]

i'll screaaam are you a kuwameshi fan also... (also assuming you like it the other way around, actually. urabara? idk tbh) BUT either way fucking based, youre so good and you have excellent taste As Always

its YUUKUWA* (corrected from yusukuwa) (and yes that is the order i prefer ♥ urameshi is a much respected member of a short top hall of fame)

FUCK YEAH BROTHER/SISTER SHAKING YOUR HAND THROUGH THE SCREEN

[autistickfigure]

first time they meet. Technically. not really

[killabratzzcherri]

┆ ° ♡ • ➵ ✩ ◛ ° Here is a quick PSA for all my dear followers, friends, and people who are stopping by!

You cannot. I repeat. CANNOT.

Compare one person's suffering with another's. It doesn't work that way. You cannot invalidate one person because someone else had it quote on quote worse. There isn't a worse, because they are not the same person, and they haven't had the same experiences. Yes, someone might have had something more severe happen to them, but you can't say that another persons pain is not just as valid purely because the cause of the pain wasn't as bad as someone else's. That one thing, although not as bad as someone else's, might be the worst thing to happen to THEM yet. You see that, THEM. Not you, or the person your trying to compare with. THEM, because the only way to really "compare" someone's pain, is by seeing THEIR past experiences. AND STILL, it's not even comparable because it is not, they're not the same as they where.

People are made and shaped by so many things, and no one is ever completely the same. I’ll say it again. No one is EVER completely the same. So, no one ever completely reacts the same way, has the same experiences to draw knowledge from, lessons from. Hell, no one even has the same exact thought process. Everyone is different, and everyone has been shaped differently.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk☺️

[piplupod]

i deleted over 1k photos and at least 30 videos off of my google account today and then like 200 of my vacation photos uploaded and,, its saying im out of storage again?? how do 200 photos compare anywhere near to 1k+ photos????

i know theyre probably trying to get me to buy their $2.79 a month extra storage but like ?? im so confused ?? those 200 photos were definitely not an entire GB worth of storage ???

[vampacidic]

what are your thoughts on suou tsukasa. i think she is very egglike and also chubby

uu i've acfually never really dug into tsukasa lore LMAO she's just not a character my brain attached to.. i feel like i'd be obsessed with her if i dug into her maybe 2 years agai bc her struggle with expectations reeeeally would've reflected my own at the time but i never did.. i think she's cute. a bit of a try hard but in the cutest way possible. for some reason i have all of her gacha five stars on both music and basic.... i'm squeezing her like this

[jayswing101]

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[chemicalarospec]

sacre bleu...

a fic i once loved deleted...

[jewishvitya]

A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.