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[fictionkinfessions]

Canon children ask game

Tw for death.

On my planet, names are reserved for immediate family. Because of this I will not name my children here.

I had four children on Gallifrey. They were the most amazing individuals I have ever had the honour to meet.

My eldest was our equivalent of a police officer. I remember the day we got the news, that they had been accepted. We had a picnic in the Constellation of Laughter, where the colourful gases sounded like they were laughing. They were incredibly similar to their other parent, but they had my eyes. In every regeneration.

My middle child was a chef. They were the greatest in seven galaxies. Every species around wanted them to cook for every special occasion going. And they did! One of the benefits of time travel. They could make the most delicious meals with two or three ingredients. They laughed like I do.

My youngest was an archivist. They recorded our history and carefully stored it for future generations. Despite it being against the laws, we would occasionally go back in time to see what previous generations were like. They were the most like me, I think. No respect for any rules.

My final child is a difficult story to tell. During the War, there were creatures called Never-Weres. When they killed someone, that person got erased from history. They never existed. Every Time Lord that went into battle had a Time-Locked box holding pictures and important documents about themselves. These boxes were placed on a timer. If you didn't access them within three weeks of updating them, they would send themselves to your next of kin. I received one of these boxes, showing that I had a fourth child. I don't remember them at all. That box was one of my most precious belongings before I introjected here. The longer I go without seeing it, the less I remember. Soon I might forget they ever existed.

I had a fifth child through a forced form of asexual reproduction. Her name was Jenny. Her name can be shared because she wasn't raised a Time Lord, in our culture. She was born full grown, and a soldier. I promised to take her to new worlds and show her that there's more to life than fighting. But she died. She was only 4 hours old. She loved adventure as much as I do.

All of my kids are dead now. I haven't talked about them in a very long because it still hurts so much. But I think talking and sharing might help.

- The Doctor (Tags as fictive please).

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[doccywhomst]

[earhartsease]

this is so on the nose

just adding (since it seems to have stirred some people up) that obviously this is not an absolute - it just points to how some oppressive systems (for example) rely on bad faith to cover for their systems doing what they're really intended to do by claiming that they're still in progress - but there are plenty of other less bad faith examples too that are more to do with poorly thought out or poorly implemented plans

[ID: post by The Garantine quoting the start of a wikipedia article

Very tired of hearing about what the intentions are. If a system constantly produces a different outcome than the one it is "intended" for then it's perfectly reasonable to assume the actual intention is the outcome it continues to produce.

beginning of quoted article below reads as follows:

The purpose of a system is what it does

The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.

ID ends]

[sayruq]

Boost please and donate if you can

[ramshackledtrickster]

Finding something cool and thematically rich and wanting to see what other people think abt it and all I find is shipping

[noonesgaylikegatson]

Some messages left by queer Palestinians who face annihilation by the Israeli government in their retaliation against Hamas. The Israeli government has dropped thousand of bombs, leveled streets, cut off water, gas, and electricity, bombed hospitals, ambulances, mandated evacuation and then bomb evacuees. Innocent people are dying in the mass.

There is no need for this government to employ these acts of collective punishment. The same logic that is used to condemn the acts of Hamas, should be used to condemn the actions of the Israeli government. No one deserves to slaughtered and dehumanized.

And keep in mind, that this terror is not unusual for the Palestinian people, and this is another horrific event in a decades long oppression and apartheid.

[raphaerolo]

Get this man medical attention and a hug

[directactionforhope]

U.S. Free Palestine Protests this Weekend: 2/17 through 2/19

2/17 Denver, Colorado Indianapolis, Indiana San Diego, California Seattle, Washington

2/18 Boone, North Carolina Milwaukee, Wisconsin New Orleans, Louisiana

2/19 Aransas Pass, Texas Chicago, Illinois Los Angeles, California - Jews for Ceasefire All-Day Shiva

And there are many more! Check out the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink, and your local Palestinian and/or Muslim groups for protests in your area!

[reasonsforhope]

Where can I find Free Palestine protests and Ceasefire protests?

A super international and continually updated list of actions can be found at Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network's:

Calendar of Resistance for Palestine 2024

They list events by date, then alphabetically by country, then by city - and it's common for them to have dozens of actions listed for a single date, especially on the weekends.

The United States especially often has 40+ events on a single day, especially on the weekends.

Events are posted with links to the event info posted by whoever's hosting the vast majority of the time.

Look blow the read-more for a list of many of the countries that have been on this protest calendar, in alphabetical order, since I know so many websites/lists of actions are country-specific

*Obviously this isn't the only good source of listings for protest events - there are many others. This is by far the biggest/most international roundup I've found, though, so I started with this. If you know another good place for finding ceasefire protests/events, please feel free to add it in the notes, bc I'm planning to put a bigger roundup together once I find enough other sites

Countries that Samidoun has listed/does list protests for include (in alphabetical order):

North America:

United States

Canada

Mexico

Puerto Rico (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Hawai'i (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Europe:

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Denmark

England

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

Romania

Scotland

Serbia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Wales

SWANA Region (Southwest Asia/North Africa)*:

Bahrain

Iraq

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Palestine

Tunisia

Turkiye (Turkey)

*Samidoun notes that "We know that these events are mainly international and that the Arab people are marching everywhere for Palestine – we will be honored to add more Arab events whenever we are informed!"

Asia:

Bangladesh

India

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Maldives

Pakistan

South Korea

Africa:

Kenya

Mauritius

Nigeria

South Africa

Tanzania

Tunisia

*Duplicating North African countries (well, Tunisia) here from the SWANA list btw

South America:

Brazil

Colombia

Chile

Peru

Venezuela

Australia and Oceania:

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Australia

[rustic-space-fiddle]

Forgive me.

[fictionkinfessions]

War again in this life and I feel so powerless to do anything, to really help people, much less to stop it. I'm immeasurably sad and angry. Never thought I'd miss prophecies...

- Tsunami (Wings of Fire)

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[trashcora]

Ariana Greenblatt as YOUNG AHSOKA TANO AHSOKA — Part 5: Shadow Warrior

[iszapizza]

padawan!maul au

[ominouspuff]

Corrie guard mood board

[tyquu]

My n' my friend were being silly thinking about what these two would get up to in a reluctant temporary wild space alliance.

(I have not read the Thrawn books yet, everything i know about him beyond rebels is through @gherkinlizard )

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 261

“So is no one going to talk about the eldritch space child or…” 

“I mean, do you want to get between a child and Batman? I think the only one who could even get close right now is Superman…” 

“No you’re right, I think- oh my god the eldritch space child is playing with batman’s bat-ears and he’s not doing anything about it what the fuck I thought only Robins could get away with that-”