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Reblog and put in the tags what are your favourite outfits/looks of your Blorbo(s)

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peter & caspian   »   another love.

a vague study in love, fealty, and what's left when you've run out of reasons to stay. caspeter at its best, imo, is about the quiet conjunction. it's about fighting the inevitable, trying to catch the uncatchable, and the slow realisation that your love belongs to the land and its people more than he will ever belong to you. if none of that makes sense: that's okay, just vibe. happy watching :)

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do you have any book recommendations on zionizm or israel/palestine conflict

I had a screenshot of my reading list going around for awhile but I’ve updated it since. Here’s what I have so far:

- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe

- The Jewish State. Theodore Herzl

- The Iron Wall. Ze’ev Jabotinsky

- Lethal Theory. Eyal Weizman

- The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. Gabriel Piterberg

- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Nur Masalha

- Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel. Gardner Thompson

- Land, Labor and the Origin of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Greshon Shafir

- Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Zachary Lockman

- The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine. Ghassan Kanafani

- Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. Rosemary Sayigh

- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi

- Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. Tony Greenstein

- Zionism in the Age of Dictators. Lenni Brenner

- The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. Edwin Black

- In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II. Yosef Grodzinky

- What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine. Yael Chaver

- Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942. Dan Tamir

- The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and its Ideological Legacy. Eran Kaplan

- The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir. Lenni Brenner

- The Making of Israeli Militarism; War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s Militaristic Nationalism. Uri Ben-Eliezer

- Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - And Why They Make Peace. Patrick Tyler

- The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel’s Quest for Security Through Dominance. Baylis Thomas

- Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism. Stephan Spector

- Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. Eyal Weizman

- Israel: A Settler Colonial State. Maxime Rodinson

- Israel and Settler Society. Lorenzo Veracini

- Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. M. Shahid Alam

- Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion. Nur Masalha

- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. Avi Shlaim

- War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Jeff Halper

- Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. Jonathan Cook

- The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Across the World. Antony Loewenstein

- Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation by Riad Nassar

- We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands. Rachel Shabi

- On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements. Ella Shohat

- The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Bryan Roby

- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Makings of a Movement. Angela Davis

- Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine. Ran Greenstein

- Rebels Against Zion: Studies on Jewish Left Anti-Zionism. Jack Ross

- Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine

- After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor

- Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. Jeff Halper

- Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims (1979). Edward Said

- Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims (1988). Social Text. Ella Shohat

- Zionism’s Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews (1996). Journal of Palestine Studies. Joseph Massad

- The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel (2003). American Sociological Review. Aziza Khazzoom

- Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy in Germany, 1933-39 (1978). The Journal of Modern History. Francis Nicosia

- Ethnoreligious Fundamentalism and Theoethnocratic Politics in Israel (2014). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. Nissim Leon

- The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition to the First Zionist Congress in 1897 (2009). Journal of Palestine Studies. Walid Khalidi

- Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel (2012). Settler Colonial Studies. David Lloyd

- The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine, 1917-1939 (1989). American Ethnologist. Scott Atran

- Zionism and Imperialism: The Historical Origins (1977). Journal of Palestine Studies. Abdul-Wahab Kayyali

- The Political Economy of Israel’s Demand for Palestinian Labor (1998). Third World Quarterly. Ali Kadri, Malcolm McMillen

- The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial About It? (2008). Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Leila Farsakh

- Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party (2007). Journal of Palestine Studies. Johan Franzen

- The Nakba Did Not Start or End in 1948 (2017). Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948

- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Colonialism (2012). Joseph Massad. Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/24/zionism-anti-semitism-and-colonialism/

- Anti-blackness and the Core Logic of Zionism (2017). Devyn Springer. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/blackness-logic-zionism/

- Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It (2018). Medhi Hasan, Dina Sayedahmed. The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

- Zionist Role in 1950s Attacks on Iraqi Jews ‘Confirmed’ by Operative and Police Report (2023). Rayhan Uddin. Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews-attacks-zionist-role-confirmed-operative-police-report

- How Benjamin Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist (2018). Anshel Pfeffer. Ha’aretz [Zionist publication] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2018-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-netanyahu-became-a-holocaust-revisionist/0000017f-ded1-d3ff-a7ff-fff1b72a0000

- Scholars Call Bullshit on Netanyahu’s Speech Blaming Palestinians for the Holocaust (2015). Avi Asher-Schapiro. Vice News. https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb83gm/scholars-call-bullshit-on-netanyahus-speech-blaming-palestinian-for-the-holocaust

- Trump Accuses ‘Liberal Jews’ of Voting to ‘Destroy America and Israel’ in Rosh Hashanah Message (2023). Summer Concepcion. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-goes-liberal-jews-israel-rosh-hashanah-message-rcna105540

- Majorie Taylor Greene Calls Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Protest an ‘Insurrection’ (2023). Heather Hunter. MSN News. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-israel-gaza-ceasefire-protest-an-insurrection/ar-AA1itAHG

- Government Said to Use Canary Mission Blacklist to Bar Visitors (2018). The Times of Israel [Zionist publication]. https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-said-to-use-canary-mission-blacklist-to-bar-visitors/

- Jewish Establishment Needs to Take on ‘Islamo-leftist’ Jews Who Are Undermining Israel’s Security - Zionist Thinktank (2022). Phillip Weiss. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/jewish-establishment-needs-to-take-on-islamo-leftist-jews-who-are-undermining-israels-security-zionist-thinktank/

- Israel Lobby Group ADL Rehabilitates Hitler’s Accomplices in Ukraine (2022). Ali Abunimah. The Electronic Intifida. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-group-adl-rehabilitates-hitlers-accomplices-ukraine/35021

- San Francisco Federation Funds Far Right U.S. Groups, Not Just Canary Mission (2018). Allison Kepler Sommer. The Forward. https://forward.com/israel/411787/san-francisco-federation-funds-far-right-us-groups-not-just-canary-mission/

- Israel is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine (2018). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876

- Israel is Still Arming Ukraine’s Nazis (2022). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-still-arming-ukrainian-nazis

- Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in the Age of Trump (2019). Eliyahu Stern. Tablet Magazine [Zionist publication] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anti-semitism-orthodoxy-trump

- The New Heimish Populism (2020). Joshua Leifer. Jewish Currents. https://jewishcurrents.org/the-new-heimish-populism

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@lgbtqcreators battleship bingo - free choice

the pevensie siblings + "soldier, poet, king" by the oh hellos

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for those of you who don’t know by now, the reason why people are boycotting Starbucks is because workers united made a post publicly “declaring solidarity with Palestine” on @sbworkersunited on Twitter. The corporation is suing the union because of that tweet. The boycotts are working, the employees are quitting, people aren’t showing up to Starbucks all over the world. Share prices are low, it’s working. Boycott Starbucks.

Also McDonald’s has been providing free meals to IDF soldiers in !sr3al so f*ck them too.

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chronograph of 354

(insp)

also on inprnt!

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no like imagine being a legendary voice actor bringing a character to life yourself for like 20 years and they cast some homophobe in his normal speaking voice for the big screen debut nintendo needs to pay charles martinet an apology of like a billion dollars and i am so serious

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caspeter + letterboxd reviews

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would you survive on a “deserted” island

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i love rhythm games where youre a part of a group and every time you mess up everyone side eyes you its so funny. scathing reviews from the bon odori ladies

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as an ex-catholic it’s very funny to see ‘catholic convert’ in people’s bios it’s akin to running out of a burning skyscraper and passing someone heading on up to the top floor

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PART ONE / PART TWO / PART THREE

song: georgia by phoebe bridgers (i recommend listening to the song while lookin at the pics it is honestly so much)

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The main reason I wish the Narnia movies went on is so I could see Peter Pevensie growing into an adult. This kid was forced to grow up so fast; he had to fight for survival and lead an army when he was just a teenager. Seeing him actually come into his own and make a life for himself would be so rewarding. Watching this guy pick a major that he likes, discuss career options he might like with his dad, use the family car to visit friends on the weekends…it’s required for my mental health, okay?

None of this to say that these are the only things that constitute a “normal life.” There’s no shame in not doing secondary education and/or not having a career plan! I’m just thinking about Book!Peter being a nerd and studying for exams at Professor Kirke’s…I want to see him fall in love with some niche humanities progam, no matter how many people tell him could do more in other fields!! I want to see Peter study medieval theology and dabble in Latin and Ancient Greek…I want to see him ramble about his projects on walks with his friends…I want to see him get published in some obscure journal, to which Lucy responds by throwing a whole party.

Really, I just want to see Peter pursue his dreams

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Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

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its important to watch movies that are not good and that next to nobody has heard of ever

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narnia age rant

on god this is the last time i’m ever going to talk about it but i just wanted to list it here; please let it be known that this is not an interpretation, everything i’ve listed here has been confirmed.

book ages (based on c.s. lewis’s official timeline):

peter was born in 1927, making him 13 / 14 / 15 through lww / pc / vodt.

susan was born in 1928; which means she was 12 / 13 / 14.

the book states that edmund is only a year older than lucy, but lewis has his birth dated at 1930 (perhaps he’s a december baby?), so we have 10 / 11 / 12.

lucy was born in 1932; 8 / 9 / 10.

caspian was born in 2290; during pc he is 13, and in vodt he is 16-17.

film ages: 

lucy’s adventures in narnia, a lww film tie-in novella, mentions that lucy is 8 and edmund is three years older, meaning that she is 9 in pc (recall “it’s been a year” from peter) and 10 in vodt, assuming that only one more year has passed.

edmund is 11 / 12 / 13 across the three instalments. 

susan is 15 / 16 / 17.

confirmed by ben, peter and caspian were both 17 in pc, meaning that peter was 16 in lww. this also means that caspian was 20 in vodt.

don’t be weird. stop shipping characters with disgusting age differences. if lucy were the “mental age” of a 24 year old in pc, she wouldn’t act like a child: all four pevensies are quite mentally mature, yes - but that’s because they grew up in the middle of a war. while it’s really interesting to talk about the implications of being thrust back into a different body after years of ruling (because you can have this trauma and these memories without suddenly being an adult), even william, for example, confirmed that peter is still ultimately a stubborn teenager in pc: 

if that’s not compelling enough for you, try edmund’s “we are kids.” in no circumstances is it ever okay to pair a 20 year old with a 13 year old; even if edmund is older than this by vodt, caspian still met him when he was 17, and edmund was 12. let’s not start with lucy/caspian. writing transformative works or ageing them up in your own material doesn’t suddenly remove this source context. 

not up for debate on this one because there’s really nothing to argue about considering this is canon material - i just wanted to make it clear that there are confirmed ages among the characters (across both popular iterations, at that!) and you cannot justify your pairing choices with this defence.